Jiang's central thesis is that Freud became influential because psychoanalysis protected powerful interests and powerful men rather than because it was designed to help patients.
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Psychoanalysis
Jiang's central thesis is that Freud became influential because psychoanalysis protected powerful interests and powerful men rather than because it was designed to help patients.
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Jiang's thesis is that Freud became famous not because psychoanalysis helped patients, but because it protected powerful men.
Jiang interprets Christianity and psychoanalysis as cults of individual inwardness that can trap people inside themselves and make them controllable.
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"So we will look at where this came from, okay? So the three questions we're looking at today is, first of all, where did..."
"so influential and so famous not because it's like what analyst system was designed to help his patients ultimately his system was designed to..."
"God, the figment of God, has been historically the moral source, or rather, the moral source of all slaveries. So what he's saying is,..."
"...read Freud, then you will also argue that the cult of psychoanalysis, it's really about entrapping yourself in your own emotions. As for us,..."
"...of childhood but which can be reproduced through the work of psychoanalysis in spite of the intervening decades."
"...this. He went to Harvard, and he became very interested in psychoanalysis. And he began to study it, and he became friends with Anna..."
"...read Freud, then he would also argue that the cult of psychoanalysis, it's really about entrapping yourself in your own emotions. As for us,..."
"...this. He went to Harvard, and he became very interested in psychoanalysis. And he began to study it, and he became friends with Anna..."
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