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Ep 51 - The Anxiety of Influence (Harold Bloom)

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Anxiety of Influence - Anger of Self-Preservation

Our fathers are our models for god and when they die either literally or metaphorically we must rise to take their place because can god remain dead forever? bloom draws in this beautiful Freudian concept or or Freudian phrasing angst for etvas anxiety before something so this anxiety of influence hints towards a desire. tells us that when one hasn't had a good father it is necessary to invent one.

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