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[BEST OF] Capitalism and Desire: In Dialogue with Psychoanalysis

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The Differences Between Desire and Drive

I do want to talk a little bit here about desire and drive. I know you have an entire episode on your podcast why theory dedicated to just these two concepts. Just sort of a one oh one introduction of the mainstream view or your view of the core concepts of desire and drive as well. Sure so desire just what I said so desire is like I'm my sense of lacking and I'm trying to pursue I’m trying to sustain mysense of lacking but the only difference I see is that desire believes that it can find an object that will fulfill its lack whereas drive is generated based on the lack without any idea of fulfilling it. Yeah that's really interesting and really clarifying as

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