Freud's pessimism is fundamentally anti-Rousseauian: Rousseau claims we are corrupted by evil society and wants to change civilization; Freud claims humans are evil by nature and civilization, despite its constraints, actually makes us better than we would be without it—yet 'not very good'
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“rousseau wants to fundamentally change society why because we're all corrupted by an evil world first says look you were evil to begin with the world did with you what it could and it made you better than you would be”
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