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Episode 116: Freud on Dreams

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Repression Mechanism Is Like a Defence Mechanism

Qie: The self is deluding the self. Not only do we not have perfect self knowledge, but our attempts at perfect self knowledge are not frustrated by limits on the apparatus of our own self reflection. So i tried to outline early on that i thought this was a radical challenge for the traditional notions of self. But i think there's a couple of things that are interestingly subversive about this.

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