UNLOCKED: Freud and Politics (w/ Pat Blanchfield)
Know Your Enemy
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I Think That the Act of Forgetting Is Necessary for the Creation of a Nation
The amount of psychic work, wilful or otherwise, to disavow monstrosity requires a compensatory outlet. And that is resolved by making the people who make you feel bad about thing,. The ones who actually want to do like white janicide writes, it's a reaction formation. They're the one, like, they're the oes who re oing to destroy you. You know that ernest renan, to quote, the acts of forgetting, as much as collective memory, are necessary for the creation of a nation. I think about that all the time.
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