
Civilization and Its Discontents
Why Theory
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I Don't Know if You Remember Your Exact Raising
Don't you think, would you say that all productivity is actually the result of, of death drive? Yeah. Absolutely. And I think there isn't enough of this understanding about the way in which it's opposed to the conscious wish, right? Like the wish. An unconscious desire can't be made into a conscious wish because it's infected by death drive. It was not easy, however, to demonstrate the activities of the supposed death drive instinct in the translation. The manifestation of arrows were conspicuous and noisy enough. A more fruitful idea was that a portion of the drive is diverted towards the external world and comes to light as a drive of aggressiveness and destructiveness. Can I wonder if
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