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Defending Freud (side A)

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Is Freud a Charlatan?

Jizek: I feel like Freud, I think you're right to say the ease of, with which you can read him, makes him seem like a charlatan. But I also think that his will, he is willing, and this is where we get to the crux of the charlatan problem,. He is willing to be speculative, right? Yeah. Like he, like, that's what I love. You read beyond the pleasure principle. You're reading someone who's trying to account for his own speculation as it's going on. And I think that's a very, if you're doing that, you always risk coming across as a Charlatan because you

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