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Hello at the turn of the 19th and 20th century we saw the birth and rise of psychoanalysis championed by

Sigmund Freud people began to think about how the mind functioned and how our behavior might be understood through the process of

Working with a psychoanalyst either one to one or in a group Freud taught a lot about this process

In 1922 he published group psychology and the analysis of the ego in which he pronounced the group quote

Wants to be ruled and oppressed and to fear its masters unquote

Freud was writing at a time on ideas about rules and oppression were much discussed because the 20th century was also a century

Fascism totalitarianism and dictatorship Freud died in 1939 just as a wave of

Desperatism was sweeping across Europe today

We'll be discussing the relationship between politics and psychoanalysis to what extent does psychoanalysis functioned by the rules of a

Dictatorship and to what extent does it function like a democracy is a part of us that craved dictatorship

And if so why and is there a war going on in our own minds between ideas that we allow into our consciousness and others that we repress

With me to discuss psychoanalysis and democracy are Adam Phillips

Psychotherapist and author of an excellent new book equals and general editor of the new penguin translations of Freud

Sally Alexander professor of modern history at Goldsmiths College University of London and founding editor of the history workshop journal and Malcolm Bowie

Marshall Foysch professor of French literature and fellow of all sales college Oxford Adam Phillips Freud was

Writing in the early part of the 20th century. Can you sketch out the political and historical background that informed his ideas?

In

23 the young adult Hitler left Vienna and discussed

describing it as a Babylon of racism and I think the most

Significant thing about Vienna in the period in which Freud lived and it was simply the a the mobility of people for example

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