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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...men, and children. In her book, "The Nazi Conscience", Claudia Koontz quotes from Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents": "If (the Golden Rule... ...end their animal roots and inhibit their baser instincts (an idea incorporated into Freud's tripartite model of the human psyche). The anthropocentr... ...em to have three important functions: 1. To process repressed emotions (wishes, in Freud's speech) and other mental content which was suppressed a... ...s "compensatory". The previous three functions are "complementary" and, therefore, Freudian. It would seem that we are all constantly engaged in m... ...re other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness" (Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents) In their book "... ...ce at all. . . . I am nothing but a conquistador by temperament, an adventurer.” (Sigmund Freud, letter to Fleiss, 1900) "If you bring forth that ... ... would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we cannot get elsewhere." (Sigmund Freud, "The Future of an Illusion") Harold Bloom called ... ...g line of far better movies, such as "Blade Runner" and "Artificial Intelligence". Sigmund Freud said that we have an uncanny reaction to the inani... ...ion, claim some scholars. Milton Diamond of the University of Hawaii and Dr. Keith Sigmundson, a practicing psychiatrist, studied the much-celebrat...

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