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Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa)

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(This is a re-upload, which fixed the audio. Much thanks to Gabriel Bessa for volunteering to fix the issue -- I can't thank him enough.) Freud proposed the theory of the Oedipal Complex. Where did he get the idea? Why did it become so popular? In this talk to his Beijing high school students, Jiang Xueqin explains that Freud developed his psychological theories in order to protect the interests of the powerful. His protege Carl Jung would take Freud's theory of the unconscious, and turn it into a systemic model of human psychology. Because of modernist literature and art, this "cult of the self" has permeated throughout the entire culture, becoming the air we breathe. This has led to devastating social consequences, especially among the young. References: 1. Aetiology of Hysteria by Sigmund Freud 2. Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud 3. Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud 4. The Assault on Truth by Jeffrey Masson 5. Ulysses by James Joyce 6. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

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@omitbadgers5664 2025-06-12

'The century of the self' is a great documentary about the impact of the self and how it benefits the elites. It's here on YT, but quite long though (4 hours).

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@園子のガーデン 2025-08-13

This lecture series is akin to therapy. In therapy one grapples with the harmful beliefs about themselves and the world that they had been taught from a young age through their parents or superiors or specific traumas they had encountered through life. In this series we learn about the harmful beliefs about ourselves and the world around that we have been taught by the entire history of civilization and the way our collective thinking has developed through the progression of ideologies over centuries of development in order understand them in context to understand that our way of thinking is far from the only nor most preferrable. I like this style of teaching.

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@vatchepatrikyan8999 2025-06-04

I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS. You are the high school teacher I wish I had. I am in university now and I am going through all your videos and learning so much!!! THANK YOU!!!!

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@spiderpants3378 2025-07-16

I usually don’t comment on YouTube videos but your final remark at the end evoked a very strong desire to change my life’s course. America, by design, doesn’t teach much about the roots of oppression, so I am very grateful for your insights.

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@TheCloudFruit 2025-08-20

What an incredible gift to society. I believe teaching, especially of the kind this man does, is one of the most selfless expressions of self.

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@Laiv90 2025-09-02

I've found the critic of Freud very interesting and sensible. However, the critic of Jung seems a bit forced. Jung said that the path of individuation (looking inward to find who you truly are) is essential to be able to be in a community. So, he didn't want to put the single above the community, first you get to know yourself a bit more, then you can be authentically in a community. Using the scheme that the professor showed: it's the cult of the "persona" that is misused in our society. Jung created the scheme, but it was manipulated by who is in power.

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@goaheadmakemyday7126 2025-07-06

Never knew that about Freud! Pretty wild that one of the most influential psychologist of the last century was a grifter

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@llchan 2025-08-11

I feel like you’ve just opened a pandora box 😂

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@alexthegreat3762 2025-07-25

i think this video just changed my life

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@arogyatiwari6066 2025-10-19

I don't even care if you're a Chinese spy at this point. This is free real estate version of knowledge

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