• Mental health -⁃ dependent on your social environment⁃ relative to society⁃ what your parents asked of you⁃ determined by society and/or biology⁃ dependent on the workings of the id, ego, and superego (Freud)⁃ equilibrium⁃ avoid excess -> prevents well functioning⁃ capacity for care PLUS self-preservation⁃ control⁃ suppression⁃ release⁃ sublimation⁃ Freud would say that it's a problem that certain behaviors are viewed as illness⁃ ego - works behind the scenes to design a personality with which you can choose⁃ id, ego, and superego - ⁃ out of our control⁃ almost mechanical in the way that they operate• Marx⁃Hegel⁃ 2nd important german philosopher besides kant⁃ Dialectics⁃ a way of seeing the way things are⁃ dynamic way of arguing⁃ how things unfold⁃ things work this way in history⁃ history is a dynamic development of the self-realization of spirit⁃ spirit was the main principle of being⁃ absolute⁃ thesis is confronted with an antithesis⁃ takes a being and turns it into nothing, becoming a
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