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Post by aggelosstamos on Nov 17, 2017 22:00:29 GMT
Damasio alludes on page 275 to a connection between the goals of Spinoza and Freud with respect to reason and emotion. Try to elaborate this connection based on our earlier study of Freud's psychodynamic theory.
On page 275 Damasio attempts to pinpoint certain similarities between the goals of Spinoza and Freud's psycho dynamic theory, with respect to reason and emotion. Freud in his works illustrates the significance of the unconscious in the way we regulate reason and emotion. He argued humans are irrational "beasts" who are driven by their Id and are in constant conflict between their inner deeper inner beastly instincts and what is socially and circumstantial acceptable, something that is attempted to be mediated by their superego. This is line with Spinoza's views that the mind proceeds the body as as Freud would argue the bodily instincts are repressed by cognitive functions, what he would call the superego. Other similar connections can be seen as to how one deals with their source of discomfort/conflict as they ought to identify it and repress or substitute it with a positive one.
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