Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud

The general take

Cohen Miles-Rath describes Freud's "Civilization and Its Discontents" as exploring the concept of an "oceanic feeling"—a sense of connection to the universe that Freud himself found difficult to fully grasp. The book apparently delves into this transcendent experience and its relationship to human consciousness, though Cohen presents it as more of an intellectual puzzle Freud was wrestling with rather than a definitive answer.

Who said what

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  Cohen Miles-Rath💬 Mentioned

  …reading philosophical text that relates to psychotic experience

  “I was studying Sigmund Freud's civilization of its discontent. And I remember sitting in the kitchen reading the book and he talks about this oceanic feeling. I don't know if you're familiar with the oceanic feeling term. Freud is struggling with the concept because it talks about this feeling with the universe, this kind of like oceanic, like high, right? In some sense. Connection to everything.”

  Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard — Cohen Miles-Rath (on psychosis and recovery)at 40:17

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