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Defending Freud (side A)

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Psychoanalysis and Science Are Fundamentally at Odds

I don't think you could import a little bit of the psycho analytic attitude into science. Science is, I think, founded on the repression of subjectivity. You have to practice and work it out for yourself. Like there's no substitute for that. It seems to me like the rep, psychoanalysis is the, for lack of a better word, study ofsubjectivity. And I think they're fundamentally at odds.

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