08: Political Economy, Libidinal Economy
Ordinary Unhappiness
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Freud's Book Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Sally Kohn: Why Freud calls the book beyond the pleasure principle right because like this is the absolute one way of under one question you can ask. She says it's hard to think of a more neatly encapsulated death drive sort of like nugget then what is oftentimes presented as a affirmative statement of political defiance namely "You could only take these guns from me from my cold dead hands" There are times I'd be very happy to talk about millions hundreds and millions of guns tens of thousands of guns a year combined with insistences on our national innocence demands that solutions fix everything, she says.Kohn: A lot of people who say that are also really big into images of
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