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4/3/22: The Political Is Sexual - snav’s digest

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The Eleventh Post.

Hey everyone. I have something a little more radical, a little more political than usual for you today. Once again I ask you to bear with me. Let me share one of the standard criticisms of Freud. The following was taken from this blog post by Scholar’s Stage: The key to Freud’s success, I think, was not that he proposed human action was largely the product of unconscious perceptions, desires, and so forth. That was not new. What was new was Freud’s argument that all of these perceptions, desires, and complexes were the product of the sex drive. Freud changed the intellectual world by…

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