The Work of Ernest Becker with Daniel Liechty
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The Balancing of the Organs
Foucault's big thing on mental health is the whole idea of not constraining something to the signifier of mental health because as soon as you do that, it gets dangerous in terms of how you control people. The healthy feel that they're, that they have a God given right to control the unhealthy. When you, you know, I struggled with that as a parent. How much, how much do you impose? Yes, you have more experience. But sometimes the best is to just give the freedom to learn by their own experiences. Both of them are drawing from this, from this long tradition of Western thought, where you have this pendulum swings and the, you know
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