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Defending Freud (side A)

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Freud's Anti-Semitic Prejudice About Money

Psychoanalysis was referred to as the Jewish science, and that is something that Freud wanted to push against because he didn't want it just thought of that way. He saw in Jung, he even says this, my crown prince who could be an Aryan to carry on the torch of psychoanalysis. So I do think you're right to connect that to the anti-Semitic prejudice about money, but no one else talks about that. No, yeah. My point is just, I think you could say that about every theorist. Like they're just, I guess the real question is: To what extent do you like the high life of the dandy?

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