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Mark Solms, "The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness" (Norton, 2021)
New Books in Psychoanalysis
The Seven Drives of Freud
Freud's definition of drives was that they are measures of the demand made upon the mind for work by virtue of the connection between the mind and the body. In decades since Freud's pioneering work, using methods that Freud could barely have dreamt of having access to is that of course there are drives in the human brain. And I'm only mentioning the emotional drives when I list the seven that I did a moment ago, but they're very different from a half-royd conceptualized them. You can't have a drive to attach without an object of a specific kind, namely a caregiving object. It's a look of a nurturant drive, which implies a dependent, vulnerable
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