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Civilization and Its Discontents

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Freud's Death Drive

"Death drive is identified with individuality and singularity of the subject," he writes. "It cuts, it's a way of cutting off connections that it does." Freud says death drives are making us go our own way to separate ourselves from the rest of the social order.

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