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Introduction

Along with Darwin and Marks,

Sigmund Freud was one of the great shapers of the modern world.

This was not exactly a stellar accomplishment when we consider the

inchoate shapelessness of the modern world, but it was an accomplishment after a

fashion. This remains the case even though his system as a system is now out of favor.

But there remains one element of his teaching that is with the still, and we will get

there in a minute.

For you November junkies, the outrageous stuff will be a bit further down.

I have to set the stage first.

Just as people tinker with Darwin, but a naturalistic understanding of origins,

so Freud has left the lasting mark.

Just as people still mess around the edges of doctrine and Marxism, but the modern world nevertheless

has internalized the idea that everybody else's stuff is somehow in the communal pot,

and up for grabs in principle, so also Freud is with a still.

And so here it is.

Freud taught that guilt was an inescapable part of the human condition.

This guilt was not objective, meaning that it had no reference to God, for God did not exist in Freud's system.

But given man's prehistoric antecedents, it was a subjective reality that was ineradicable.

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