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[BEST OF] Capitalism and Desire: In Dialogue with Psychoanalysis

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The Death Drive and the Death Drive

Brett: I was just hoping that you could offer us some sort of psycho analytic understanding related to the death drive if it plays a role in your opinion of of fascism and of Trump specifically. "I'm going to say something you're going to find either strange and satisfying or totally dissatisfied or strange but so I think that it's actually a flight from death drive," he says. The idea of psychoanalysis is there's some kernel of sacrifice attached to subjects enjoyment and that's death drive, Brett adds."Death drive keeps coming back like it's never it never workslike the wall doesn't get built correctly that really doesn't keep immigrants out  and so you the the cycle of

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