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Civilization and Its Discontents

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Is Psychoanalysis a Religion?

The most animus is generated when there's only a slight difference between you and the other, right? That's funny. Freud connects that to self-love and narcissism, right? Like that's one of his greatest little teeny points he makes. It's interesting that Lacan brings a dialectic to what Freud sets up as a dichotomy. I think that's like a very very important way of thinking about Lacan's entire intervention in psychoanalysis.

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