Freud's the Triumph of the Therapeutic

Sonia Sotomayor: I wanted to latch on to something you said about the pathologies of the family. She says Freud was not talking about a timeless primordial family, but an early 20th century phenomenon. And so what is this father figure? Well, it represents maybe authority simply; there's a crisis of authority just connected to the death of God. For Reef, he reads Freud as responding to that and also sort of contributing to it. The way sexually differentiated forms of work get collapsed and erased under capitalism.