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Lacan's Seminar 2: The Ego in Freud's Theory...

Why Theory

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Freud's Desire, Life and Death, 232 and 233

Freudian theory may seem to explain everything, including what's related to death within the framework of a closed, libidinal economy. What Freud's primary masochism teaches us is that when life has been dispossessed of its speech, its final word can only be the final maladiction expressed at the end of Oedipus echolones. Life doesn't want to be healed. The negative therapeutic reaction is fundamental to it again, drive. Uh, anyway, what is healing? The realization of the subject through a speech, which comes from elsewhere traversing it. This life we're capable of, this essentially alienated life, existing as such joined to death.

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