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Why Theory

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The Drive Is Freud's Theory of Ontology

The way Freud conceived of sexuality has much more in common with the way he's conceiving death drive now. He just, in fact, Todd, he just said that doesn't exist in the paragraph I read from. That sounds like something he would have written. But if he can't get other people in his club to put it really reductively and stupidly, how is he going to get people outside to do it?

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