Ideas Matter: Freud - the unconscious and the repressive society

From the archives of The Academy, this lecture ‘Freud: The unconscious and the repressive society’ is a taster and some useful context for this year’s Academy Online event ‘Psychology and Democracy’ on 20 June 2020 (details below).

Lecturer, Dr Michael Fitzpatrick reflects on the work of Sigmund Freud, including ‘Civilisation and its Discontents’ which was published in 1929 and signals a shift in Freuds work from a focus on the individual psyche to how some of those ideas could be applied at the wider level of society and culture. 

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