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Oedipus Complex

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Isn't It the Problem?

The birth of modernity and I think Bloom says it's the birth of the human subject is, is Hamlet. Ernest Jones has a nice book called Hamlet Nettipus that systematically destroys any possible refutation of Freud's theory in advancing Freud's theory. You're like, wow, that has to be right because all these other explanations for the delay, they just, they fall apart,. Then it's the Freud's explanation then is the one that carries the day. And so he can't, so unconsciously he's unable to accede to that position because he, it's, well, I don't know though, isn't that again part of the problem?

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