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- Is there such a philosophy: all living beings on the planet are me? Idols and misfits, perverts and intellectuals-all this is for me?
- I want to learn to write. I have a good imagination, a sense of inspiration, but I'm not a genius. You need to write about something, and not stupidly dirty the paper. How to start your development? What am I supposed to do?
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- If we assume that it was religion that killed people, how many did science kill by the same logic?
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We should start with an Introduction to Psychoanalysis, a book based on a course of lectures given by Freud. Then you can take “Beyond the pleasure principle”. I'll also add Totem and Taboo. And in principle, the main conceptual core should become clear.
To complete the picture, it is worth reading “The Psychopathology of Everyday life”, “The Interpretation of Dreams”, “I and it”, “Three essays on the theory of sexuality”, “Dostoevsky and parricide”, and “Wit and its relation to the unconscious”… But this is already further.
About whether it's worth it… I think Rutkiewicz's article will help to understand this (at the end of the article, Rutkiewicz writes that psychoanalysis is a kind of mythology, which is why he added Totem and Taboo to must read, since the work, in fact, is the construction of a general psychoanalytic myth).