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Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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The Childhood Theories of Sexuality

The sexual drive leans on the drive for nourishment and food at the beginning right in the infantile those two drives they're not exactly the same but they're in contact and they're communicating. The child is a born with an ego isn't born with an unconscious and from the very first it is receiving these messages if you will from the unconscious of the caretaker usually the motherbut it could be a substitute. Freud mentions he doesn't link this to the ancients but even he mentions one of the reasons for someone who may not typically have the object choice of another man say for a man would be the restricted access to a female loved object like prison priests monks etc.

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