A student analogizes the turn to adulthood with killing the father, but Jiang's emphasis stays on interpretive richness and on the warning embedded in the image rather than on a single psychoanalytic key.
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Freud
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In Jiang’s telling, Locke, Hume, Bentham, Mill, Marx, Darwin, and Freud each help remove the divine and reframe life around property, experience, utility, class, animality, or sex.
He models Patroclus and Achilles as internally layered actors, directors, and producers: emotion, calculation, and long-term strategy operate simultaneously inside each person.
Jiang says early Freud found that many young women's depression, anxiety, and relational symptoms traced to childhood sexual abuse, often by fathers or trusted adults.
The Etiology of Hysteria is presented as early Freud's strong scientific claim that sexual trauma is pathogenic and more common in respected families than people suspected.
Jeffrey Masson is introduced as a Freud follower who later found a sharp break between early Freud, who believed women, and later Freud.
Jiang says early Freud believed psychoanalysis could recover real childhood sexual trauma through talk therapy and that belief/advocacy helped patients heal.
Early Freud considered but rejected the objection that doctors were implanting false memories, saying he had not succeeded in forcing expected scenes onto patients.
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"Yeah. It also makes me think about this whole idea in the Greek tradition that the first two or three gods, like before Zeus,..."
"Yeah. Which in a way is very complex too, right? And for the Freudian concept is that the first few years of your life..."
"Okay. But you see how, how with Dante. Okay. Just a few lines are so rich, right? They're so pregnant. You can go on..."
"that this is an unfair system which it is right so now you have to brainwash the people into believing this is a fair..."
"then you have someone named uh David Hume okay David Hume and David Hume argued for skepticism and skepticism just says that um everything..."
"okay if you if you take drugs and you are happy with it it must be good if you like spending money it must..."
"...divine beings. We're all just animals. Then you have people like Freud. Sex is awesome, guys, okay? That's what we should be doing. We..."
"He refuses to apologize. But he tells Patroclus, listen, we can't get Achilles to fight, but maybe you can fight for us. And maybe..."
"Planning level, all right? So imagine three different individuals together in Patroclus. The first person is the actor, okay? The person who appears before..."
"...doing all three at once, okay? Subconsciously, all right? So, Sigmund Freud would say that this is the id, okay? The id is just..."
"...mystery that I think everyone is curious about. Second is Sigmund Freud. I'm not sure if you've read Sigmund Freud, but his theories are..."
"Neuroscience is very much based on Freud's understanding of how the brain works. So how is it that this man with his strange ideas,..."
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