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Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture

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The Terror of Intimacy

A way of not making links reminds me in the Christopher McCandless case and again I'm riffing off the idea of the the outlaw how he adopts for himself a pseudonym. Does it function to pinpoint the singularity of him or does it enable a certain anonymity? We could also think about death drive and in laconian psychoanalysis death drives not this biological thing but it could be thought of as a way of of stepping outside of in relative terms because one never does that completely trying to step outside of the symbolic to a certain extent.

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