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09: The Pleasure of the Text: The Standard Edition

Ordinary Unhappiness

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Freud and the Cosmopolitan Space

Freud's work was cosmopolitan. He read humanistic texts in all these languages. A lot of his work was tying together the intellectual scientific currents in German, you could call biophysics if that's the term of the discipline and French neuropsychiatry or neuropsychology. But also, he was a member of a broader world intelligentsia,. like a cosmopolitan space where people, after he made his mark, people would want to see him and would pay to see him.

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