Delusions of Everyday Life c 1700 to c 1800 political scientists have kept institutions

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It is a pleasure to encounter readings of Freud that are neither adulating nor deprecating

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Delusions of Everyday Life c 1700 to c 1800 political scientists have kept institutionsWe are all more primitive and irrational than we care to acknowledge, says Dr. Leonard Shengold in this profound and eloquent book. We all suffer to some degree from delusions vestiges of infantile mental functioning that continue into adult life and that at times of crisis manifest themselves in narcissistic thoughts of omnipotence, immortality, or perfection. Dr. Shengold argues that we can never eliminate these delusions of everyday life, but we