aggression seems to play a big part in our dissatisfaction and our unhappiness. It's this igues, the way it manifests itself, you know, through the super ego. We turn the aggression that we can't, that's wher we want to, towards ourselves. And that leads to neuroses and various forms of, that's right, pathologies.
David and Tamler dive into Sigmund Freud’s world of unconscious drives, death instincts, and thwarted incestuous urges in his classic text “Civilization and its Discontents.” If society has made so much progress, why are human beings perpetually dissatisfied? Can religion help us or is it a big part of the problem? What’s really going on when you piss on a fire to put it out? Also: how seriously should we take Freud today given some of his wackier ideas? And is he a psychologist, a philosopher, or something else entirely?
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