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08: Political Economy, Libidinal Economy

Ordinary Unhappiness

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The Death Drive

The death drive is less a singular monolithic thing even for Freud than it is a series of related problems that are brought in relation to one another. A lot of what's at stake in the death drive and I'm sure we'll do subsequent episodes about the death drive proper right is our questions like how is or why can we be attached to repetitions of things um that are bad for us i think most people know the the death drive if if they've ever been through traumatic repetition or traumatic reenactment.

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