
Psychoanalysis and Existentialism
Why Theory
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Freud's Acceptance That One Is a Slave to the Unconscious
I thought I've had a pretty good worked-out theory because I did... I thought, well, what if you just make the idea of the project unconscious? That was my whole idea. Freud has this idea of the choice of neurosis. Which is an unconscious choice. And so I liked... I'd like to equate that to the notion of an originary existential choice of project. The two line up pretty nicely. But then I think this question of the moment where you change projects or that you totally break from your past, I think it's a much ... I don't see how you think of that in psycho-analytic terms.
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