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146. Sigmund Freud and the Dynamic Unconscious
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
The Ego and Manic Depressive Disorder
Freud was interested in the idea that mental disorders could be caused for two reasons. One would be purely bodily like maybe a head injury. Other forms of mental disorder don't seem to be structure at all, structural at all. It's more like the contents of your thought have a problem, rather than the structures underlying your thought. And part of the conceptual distinction is helpful if you're trying to think at least in part about how you might cure it. We've done genetic studies on people who have manic depressive disorder in their family - and you can identify jeans within a family that seem to be contributing to the disorder. But then you'll take another family group with manic depressive disorder, and
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