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Beyond the Pleasure Principle
I think that's why for both you and I, that's the key text, right? Like beyond the pleasure principle. It's interesting to me, like you're unfurling the political consequences in the territory that Freud didn't think existed. And we did an episode a long time ago on civilization as discontent. Because of this, he doesn't see any possible, like a liberatory future can only be fleeting because of the drive. That's where he ends at the end of civilization and his discontent.