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Defending Freud (side A)

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Freud's Elitism

I think Freud does and this just I think it's tied to the money question as well because he does charge patients. It's kind of a fascinating idea that the poor you are the less you need psychoanalysis, right? Because he thinks that neurotic illness is tied to rising in class status. The lower you are in class status, the more your joke can just be pure smut like you just say the smutty thing. So there is this kind of idea. And then of course the payment for the session and his idea is that you wouldn't ever get cured unless you really had to give up something,. You know, to pay like you have to pay or else the you

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