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What if Marx and Freud never existed

19 Feb 2023

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What if Marx and Freud never existed?

the proposition that as the ego is navigating the external world (the Reality Principle) it also has to fight a two-front war against the impulses coming from the id (Pleasure Principle) and the punitively severe impulse control exercised by the superego (Conscience). This idea is original, profound and true.


Anthologies: Betterment, Thought Architecture, Narrative Culture, Accidental Civilisation, On Culture

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