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Illusions Without Owners w/ Robert Pfaller

Žižek And So On

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Freud's Theory of the Psychoporatus

Freud has in his second topography of the psychoporatus, if you know, distinguished like three levels. From it coming with drives, and from the supray ego come with moral injunctions. But when we look at how people relate to their pleasures, we can say probably that they not only follow their drives, but sometimes they have to overcome initial disgust. This is as a rule the case with sexuality, for example. Most of us that find it normally disgusting to feel somebody else's tongue in one's mouth. So this means that we are not spontaneously driven to put our tongues into everybody's mouth. We are not spontaneously human. That's the reason why these neoliberal politics

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