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08: Political Economy, Libidinal Economy

Ordinary Unhappiness

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Freud's Group Psychology

Freud's vision of what how political groups work or social institutions work is essentially by weaving together bonds of an in-group. The medieval church and the modern professional army get human beings to do a whole bunch of really wild things that seem very counterintuitive. These are achievements that speak to power of these institutions which transform basic attachments or basic dispositions into complicated new forms of pleasures.

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