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Defending Freud (side B)

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I Think That's the Idea of Fraudulent of the Phallus

I feel in him a kind of attack on the authority of my own discipline which is analytic philosophy I think it's clearly there's an analytic philosopher that that wrote it. One is almost always put in the position of having to apologize for psychoanalysis, he says. Freud gave up on Psychoanalysis and turned to biology Lacan to turn to man right Slavoid to turn to physics or others to turn to neuroscience so they can give some sort of like you know external guarantee to their investigation into the psyche  in the first place but she doesn't see why this should be any different from other philosophers who have written about phalluses being impotence-fraudulent.

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