Is it all Sex or All Eros?: Freud vs. Kabbalah

Freud of course would have had the falafel king on the couch in no time. Freud’s understandings, which have so colored our own unconscious view of the word, are the precise opposite of the secret of the cherubs. For Freud everything is a metaphor for sex. For the kabbalists, sex is a metaphor for everything. Freud was interested in reduction, in bringing everything down. He lived in an era which was still in rebellion against 1700 years of Church domination which had crippled science, freedom and beauty. As a result, he, like most of the intelligentsia of his age, automatically rejected spirit as a serious force. So Freud reduced everything in the world to sex.

to be continued…

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