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Desire & Drive

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The Unconscious Rule Over Consciousness

Psychoanalysis is on the side of the drive against desire. It doesn't prescribe a set of of solutions, and it doesn't give a path to personal fulfilment. There's no clear aim that you're going for that can be realized. And s nont even a premise. The whole discovery of psychoanalysis is that the unconscious, you know, rules over consciousness. Once you once, that's your once that's what your discovery is, then i think there's no way you're going to be effective as self help or as like, ang therapeutic or anything else.

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