diagnosis
Jiang's thesis is that Freud became famous not because psychoanalysis helped patients, but because it protected powerful men.
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Psychoanalysis
A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on transnational capital, British sea empire, Frankist revolutionary theology, Disraeli’s Coningsby, Bolshevism, Marx, Bakunin, and Freud: modernity appears as a machine that hides capital, displays a scapegoat, turns...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on transnational capital, British sea empire, Frankist revolutionary theology, Disraeli’s Coningsby, Bolshevism, Marx, Bakunin, and Freud: modernity appears as a machine that hides capital, displays a scapegoat, turns...
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diagnosis
Jiang interprets Christianity and psychoanalysis as cults of individual inwardness that can trap people inside themselves and make them controllable.
definition
Jiang defines psychohistory as marrying psychoanalysis with game theory in order to interpret state behavior.
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"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..."
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"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,..."
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"...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,..."
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"...I do is, as you mentioned, psycho history. So I marry psychoanalysis with game theory. Basically the idea is that, you know, I see..."
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"...of childhood but which can be reproduced through the work of psychoanalysis in spite of the intervening decades."
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"...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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"...or rather your method of psychohistory, which is essentially about applying psychoanalysis to geopolitics. And I know that you argue that social behavior far..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on transnational capital, British sea empire, Frankist revolutionary theology, Disraeli’s Coningsby, Bolshevism, Marx, Bakunin, and Freud: modernity appears as a machine that hides capital, displays a scapegoat, turns...
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Freud is not introduced as a neutral founder of psychology.
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The host opens by asking whether history can be protected from geopolitics and ends by asking what to do about elite overproduction.
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