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Alienation

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Is Heidegger's Theory of Alienation a Freud Theory?

Sally Kohn: Freud's theory of alienation is uncanny. Heidegger hates the word existentialism, so it's – to say non-Heidegger and existentialism is a tautology,. But even Camus who – obviously he and Sartre ended up hating each other, but Merlot Ponti, De Beauvoir – they all have the same feeling about alienation. Because they do see it as – they do think we have to do something with it, whereas Hegel thinks just embrace your alienation.

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