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Jean Laplanche's Life & Death in Psychoanalysis

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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Sublimation and Demand for Work

The greater the gap or like the bigger the space that is compressed into a singularity with regard to psychical excitation, the more satisfying the release. There's an intense city aspect of it. But I guess that de-sexualizes to a degree, but I don't know that it does exactly. Maybe it kind of does, but it does it. This is a good chance to talk about the four aspects of the drive you brought up the first, which is drawing, which is pressure. Pressure is the demand for work. That represents the drive psychically, right? That the drive Psychically represents.

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