Professor Jiang delivers a lecture on Sigmund Freud, contextualizing his work within Western religious, intellectual, and literary traditions, starting from animism to monotheism and the crisis of faith. The lecture explores solutions to this crisis, including wealth accumulation, jihad, and transgression, before delving into epistemology with Kant, Hegel, and Marx. It then scrutinizes Freud's theories of the unconscious, the Oedipal Complex, and the Electra Complex, contrasting them with Carl Jung's systematized ideas. The lecture investigates the reasons behind Freud's shift in perspective, his strained relationship with Carl Jung, and the broader cultural impact of their ideas on modernism, culminating in a critique of the "cult of the self" and its implications for society, particularly in the age of social media.
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