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Greatness and Limitations of Freud's Thought
Erich Fromm
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Fromm's masterful dissection of Freud challenges sexual reductionism while offering a humanistic alternative. This 1979 landmark in critical theory sparked academic debate by revealing how our social reality shapes psychology - a perspective that revolutionized therapeutic approaches beyond traditional psychoanalysis.

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When Your Deepest Beliefs About Yourself Are Actually Lies

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What if everything you believe about your own motivations is fundamentally wrong? Not slightly mistaken, but completely backwards-a carefully constructed illusion your mind has been maintaining since childhood. This unsettling possibility stands at the heart of Freud's revolutionary contribution to understanding human consciousness. His central principle echoed ancient wisdom from Buddha to Spinoza: truth liberates, illusion imprisons. But Freud went further, demonstrating that we actively hide truths from ourselves, burying uncomfortable realities beneath layers of acceptable explanations. His empirical work showed that insight into these hidden truths leads to healing, offering perhaps his most enduring gift to humanity. Despite fierce debates about scientific validity, Freud's concepts have permeated everything from everyday language to cinema, fundamentally reshaping how we understand why we think, feel, and behave as we do.

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The Revolutionary Trapped in Yesterday's Language

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The Uncomfortable Truth Beneath Our Comfortable Stories

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Oedipus Misunderstood: Authority, Not Desire

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The Emotional Attachments That Bind Us

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The Self-Love That Blinds Entire Nations

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Reclaiming the Radical Promise

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