Liberal application of science-y jargon has not rescued the 2500+ year delusion that Man's Essential Nature is divided between Animal Passions and Divine Reason.https://twitter.com/robsica/status/1152577864526471170?s=20 …
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this was my sort of tongue-in-cheek take from earlier -- the book blames all sorts of contemporary problems on our focus on the ego-ideal (which would become the superego in Freud's later work)https://twitter.com/simpolism/status/1153132718047268876 …
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He argues various ancient societies including the Greeks did not believe in a "punishing" superego, but rather on a "naive observer" (what Lacan would call the big Other), and as a result they were more able to experience pleasure and less focused on fantasies about self
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