Western Civilization II / Unit 15 WC2 1427 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Freud on Politics, and Freud on Women
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The idea
If no one is rational, the Enlightenment's dream of rational politics was a caution: nations could follow the death drive. He fled the Nazi takeover of Austria in nineteen thirty-eight. On women he reproduced old stereotypes, penis envy and "less evolved".
In practice
The death drive as a theory of nineteen fourteen.
Where people slip
The anchor's judgment on his gender views is attributed.
Your place on the trail
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