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Jean Laplanche's Life & Death in Psychoanalysis

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

CHAPTER

The Primal Father Is a Myth

Julie Sans: The notion of instinct within the human being is a sort of different question like we're on a different terrain or a different register. Things are a lot more let's say messy, then, all when it comes to something like an instinct which is less territorial than lies animal I think would be the way to maybe if you want to think about that. You can kind of see how Freud comes up with this idea like it's drawing on the same logic as the primal father but he knows very well that much of what hysterics is inflected with fantasy and doesn't necessarily have a real basis real in the sense of external empirical historical historical history.

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