Freud was right about one thing

The Ezra Klein Show by Vox Media Podcast Network

Aug 17, 202658:48News & Politics

Sigmund Freud is probably the most famous psychoanalyst. Yet many of his theories have been critiqued or discredited. So is there anything we can still learn from the father of psychoanalysis? In today’s episode Sean spe...

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