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Enlightenment (Kant) promised rationalism:
1. Vs myths
2. Individual autonomy
3. control over nature
4. Increasingly just society

Frankfurt Schools analysis of Enlightenment:
"...instead of these ideals of enlightenment bringing liberation, these social forms have become
...new forms of enslavement
..turned into the opposite of what they promised
...original ideas had become a new kind of myth
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Bloch:

"...while the left had neglected what Bloch wanted to call ‘revolutionary fantasy’. The left had seen fascist ideology as a mere form of deception, instead of decoding it as a form of wish-fulfilment."

"He believed that it was the fascists, and not the left, who had given political form to modern utopian substance...In doing so, fascism or Nazism had depoliticised this substance."

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- Contingent/acquired self esteem
- low self esteem does not stem from failures due to ADD impairments but it has the same sources of causation: stress in the parenting environment, and disrupted attunement/attachment.
- low self esteem is excerbated (not caused) by poor achievement.
- sense of self is an illusion
- self esteem comes from acceptance
- motivation comes from within

- attunement
- opposionality & counterwill
- autonomus nervous system, lathargy and hyperactivity, sympathetic and parasympatetic states
- secure attachments and ability to self regulate
- unconditional positive regard
- controlling undesirable behavior (short term) vs personal growth (long term)
- children swimming in parents subconscious, constant self improvement.


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