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Beyond the Pleasure Principle

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The Death Instinct

Froyd says that the resistance to psychon sis itself, he thinks is an instance of something like a death drive. He doesn't want to say it right? Like, he's like, you how can i reconcile these events with my old, stand by, steady concept of pleasure? Froyd: It would have been a wih, saved everyone a lot of trouble, if he made it clear that actually this distinction between instinct and tre that what he's looking at is called 'drive'

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