
42 | Going Beyond the Pleasure Principle with Freud
What's Left of Philosophy
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The Fort Dog Game
Owen: It seems to me like the postulate the death drive isn't reducible to, oh, sometimes you endure an unpleasure for the sake of greater pleasure later. He thinks that there are some sorts of psychic phenomena or social behaviors that don't even make sense on that model. O'Neill: That's what i think needs to be understood. I agree with you by asking us to think about the fort dog game because in your introduction, owen, i don't know if i agreed with or understand what's going on there gin the repetition of the Fort Dog Game.
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