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Stephen Pickering's avatar

Freud must have been influenced by the “pleasure principle” advocated by Jeremy Bentham.

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The Duke Report's avatar

I'm not sure any of this stuff is original. My thesis is that a lot of this "enlightened" intellectualism is just taking older, gnostic/hermetic ideas and adding a modern patina to them. Like "Percy Jackson."

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Stephen Pickering's avatar

There is certainly a generational imperative at play that makes it seem like a natural evolution.

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