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Immediacy

Why Theory

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Is There a Fear of Death?

Islam: I wonder if it's like, you know, Freud says there's no fear of death because it's just, it's all castration anxiety. What you're really fearing is the thing that you've already lost. Islam: The fantasy of immediacy can't have its material determinate and stay in the same position much longer. Michelle Obama's memoir sold 13 million copies in four months; how does that compare to novels being written today?

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