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Episode 189: The Anality of Evil (Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents")

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What's the Super Ego for Civilization?

Freud's the of individual development, how we go from seeking out pleasure or happiness through these organic ways. Just like problems and development are the source of our neurotic misery in individuals, the development of civilization has put us all into this state of of perpetually unable to find the happy s that we so crave. I want to talk about the analogy between the individual development and the development of civilisation. Up till then it is really like, civilization isn't an analogy. It is just trying to figure out why there is this tension between individual happiness and the demands of civilization. And then it just does this little twist at the end, which it's hard for me to tell to what extent that

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