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Civilization and Its Discontents

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Freud's Diatribe Against Communism

Sally Kohn: I think it's interesting that Freud sounds most like a capitalist here. He denounces communism on the one hand, and he denounces possession on the other. She says if there was a real change in human relationships, the real human relationship to possession, that might help in the direction of living more ethicallyMore than anything else. The word he uses in German is visits possession. It's B-E-S-I-T-Z, it's always negative when it's used in, in civilization, in this book.

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