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Interesting write up. Albiet my path was different, after I had heard enough through social osmosis I took a deep dive into Freud. ( also growing up with a mom who was a psychologist didn't help) it didn't take long to get why he is pushed. Ideas of fantasizing over our mothers and hating/envying our fathers helps the idea of the materialists that we are merely smart masturbatory monkeys that are led around by orgasm traps and other titillating stimulations. Of course I long ago discarded most of his "psychology " as a strange hubris, later in life I came across "Anti-Oedipus" by Deleuze and Gauttari. This system wants us to be modeled after Freudian paradigms where free will, love and moral universals are reduces to illusion or delusion. It is rather easy to manipulate and redirect sexual energy as a form of biohacking, Freud helped formalize that process.

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Shtetl, longhouse, lack of private life and understanding thereof. Burthplace of the NPC? Always putting on the show. Interdasting.

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Mar 17·edited Mar 18Liked by Egg Report

An article that resonates. A few things that it prompted in me: Freudian Coverup [Freud also worked with the young of the aristocracy, mostly female, that experienced sexual abuse [broken trust]; one can see the dissonance between perceived civility and the alleged "best" of Viennese society - but this likely exists in every society, ala deMause and childrearing; and especially among the 'aggrandizers of society'.]. The interesting thing in the article was the timing of the changes - it sounds like you became placated with language? Then the injury shook up your language-dominated persona?- and the control/repression of emotions?- especially anger?

There is a difference between righteous anger [ability to defend one's self and boundaries]; and anger from self-imposed victimization. Out of curiosity, have you read "the problem of the puer aeternus"?- the flight to intellectualization and day-dreaming; overcome via perserverence ...

“When I make my enemy my friend, have I not destroyed my enemy?" - the article also parallels the the movie "I heart Huckabees". The vulnerable, alive perspective is to focus on the vast similarities and shared humanity/beingness, that differences become joyful/healthy adaptations and not Bernay's advertised facades for insecurity/thwarted belongingness/perceived burdensomeness. I wonder if gaining weight is a way to test the sincerity of the relationship; the same way I have askewed many societal norms?

Sunday top o' the day flights of fancy [words]!- on this day of some guy beating up snakes [oh, those silver-tongues] on some green is-land-of-ire!

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good stuff.

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:/ idk who this Freud is you're talking about but it's unrecognizable to me

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I think you just need to go to Mother Mary and cry in her lap over your self-induced problems

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Was Nietzsche doing that, too? With all his psychologizing and seeing through people.

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