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Psychoanalysis and Existentialism

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Are We Fundamentally Conscious Beings? Or Are We Driven by the Unconscious?

Are we fundamentally conscious beings? Like, does consciousness define us? Or are we driven by the unconscious and thus desiring beings who can't... whose desire is constantly undermining what we consciously wish? Right? So I think that's the ... like in that little bit of Mirror Sage, you get the fundamental conflict between the two. And it's confirmed in being in nothingness when there's that section. Is it just called existential psychoanalysis? I think it's just called empirical psychoanalysis. But he's really mastered the idea of marketing little books. Eddie M. Balabar has this really nice small book, The Philosophy of Marx. He says more people should do that. It's

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