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David Livingstone Smith uses Socrates and Freud to analyze support for Trump

David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., professor of philosophy, wrote a post for Stanford University blog Philosophy Talk titled, “The Politics of Illusion: From Socrates and Psychoanalysis to Donald Trump.â€

In the essay, Smith takes a look at political rhetoric and the popularity of Donald Trump from the perspectives of Socrates, Sigmund Freud and psychoanalyst-philosopher Roger Money-Kyrle.

David Livingstone Smith
David Livingstone Smith

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