
Desire & Drive
Why Theory
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The Pleasure Principle
There are people who believe that the way you describe the drive is like a sort of extending this exitation. So how would you grapple with that understanding or make ie? That's a good question. I don't think the problem with that is that i think freud, freud finds that that's prey and he thinks it's much more difficult to understand than just chalking it up to the pleasure principle. Because what that means is, in order to extend excitation, i have to cause trouble for myself. And so that's why i don't think that can be assimilated to pleasure principle. The thing that actually turns him from retleast in his narrative, that turns him
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