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Sep 2010
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PREMIUM-Episode 26: Freud on the Human C...

Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey
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Discussing Freud's Civilization and its Discontents (1930). Get the full episode at partiallyexaminedlife.com. For Wes Alwan's summary of this book, go here).

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