On Sigmund Freud's "Civilization and Its Discontents"
New Books in Psychoanalysis
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The Super Ego, the Part That Has Internalized Civilization's Rules
The idea that we have an unconscious, even if you don't believe in the unconscious, is a freudian inheritance. It's fundamental that children are sexual, that they have needs for a gratification early on. That comes from freud. Our culture has recognized that there's no way to eradicate that the idea that we don't really know what we're doing all the time.
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