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For about a century, western society has been permeated with a caricature of Freudian theory: the notion that if we don’t acknowledge our more primal drives, we will be mentally ill and unhappy.  Conventional societal mores inhibit this kind of honesty and thus make us unhappy and inauthentic. American literature and movies in the 1950s […]

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