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Leon Brenner - The Dermic Drive

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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The Oral Drive in Freud's Psychoanalysis

The oral drive has to do with the baby's demand to be fed. Freud says this mark is a certain disjunction between the pleasurable and unpleasurable. The body is a psychic piece of flesh, but it is a human body when it is used for psychoanalysis. We don't speak about an oral driver because babies hear trucks in their mouths.

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