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how to change yourself

 

vivek s #200619
Sep 17, 2011 12:49 AM

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how to change yourself

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Roskolnikov
Jan 13, 2012 6:52 PM

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If Freud is right, then changing oneself is impossible without changing the social environment within which that self is situated and even created. "Civilization" marks the process by which human beings are separated from their "true" nature: namely, the unrelenting, primal flux of the unconscious. It is up to us, then, to try and "de-civilize" (liberate) ourselves.
 

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