
Civilization and Its Discontents
Why Theory
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The Fateful Question for the Human Species
Strychee Freud uses two different words. He uses instinct, which is like the English word. Except with a K. And then he uses a tree, which is in the germ, which means drive. So you should read drive for instinct, basically. I mean, that, that, if you had to count the great errors of translation in human history, this would be pretty high on the charts, I think. It's a pretty big one. Right? The final sentence was added in 1931. This is Straichy, when the menace of Hitler was already beginning to be apparent.
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