Desire & Drive
Why Theory
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The Death Drive Isn't Opposed to Life
Alenka says that like the drive, and like sote, the death drive is not opposed to life. And in facte the death drive allows us to a, to live. It allows us to die differently. That's what alenka means by altering the famous phrase from from becket and the unnamable - "die again, die better" I don't think you can separate it from the severing from the connection," she adds. 'It gives us our universality and our connection to others, but it's also the thing that severs us from others'
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