POL SCI 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Sigmund Freud, Unconscious Mind, Friedrich Nietzsche
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The state of constant self alienation characterizes the human bc of the development of the psyche. In the modern period a conservative and emphatic commitment to judgment as apolitical faculty. Capacity of judgement is unique to political agent. Situation where value is situated, particularism and shared. Any movie that has to do with doppelgangers. Anything that has to do with the unconsciousness has to deal with freud. Most influential cultural thinker of the 20th century. The account of the unconsciousness provides us with an account of how authoritarianism works. Influence fail in marx"s criticism= freud marxism central critical theory for the interpretation of politics. Freud"s account of structure of power within the individual. The idea that someone is sleeping, means that you are unconscious, before the self didn"t exist. Existence happend independent from their experience of the world mental state that we can not control. Dreams are the evidence of the mental state.
