Vienna
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Sigmund Freud

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"We are so made, that we can only derive intense enjoyment from a contrast, and only very little from a state of things."
Civilization and its Discontents (1930)

 

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Why War?
The Einstein-Freud Letters

In 1932 Albert Einstein in Potsdam wrote to Sigmund Freud in Vienna. Why war? the ground-breaking physicist asked the founder of psychotherapy.

Was there a solution to this age-old catastrophe? Freud's response was surprising.


Why War?
The Einstein-Freud Letters


BBC Radio 4
December 29th 2023

 

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