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The Drive Is Always Satisfied
Freud says that a precondition for the setting up a reality testing is that object shall have been lost which once brought in real satisfaction right well i think the real is the key term right like. The drive is always satisfied but it's never satisfied by an object isn't that right? Freud thinks yes the first objects were objects that were really satisfying to us and we had to give them up because of repression and and and so all reality testing is tests all subsequent objects relative to those real first objects that provided what he says real satisfaction right I bet at the end if you could ask him at the end of having written this essay would he have said you can satisfy the instinct of