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I'm Just a Figure of Pure Drive, Right?

Anttacompo: I think what he's trying to get at is, i'm just a pure drive. He drives to the basket all the time, wild abandid, right? And so it's harder to allow a drive to come out in that situation. The friethro line is "to not think about the past" - Wrighte. Anttacompa: For lacon, the disintegrating force of the death drive is aimed not at the integrity of the biological organism, as it was for freud, but rather at the imaginary coherence of the ego.

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