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Enjoyment Right & Left

Why Theory

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What's at Stake in Beyond the Pleasure Principle?

Freud early on thought that pleasure had... And the pleasure principle had... Was linked to the unconscious. I don't think he was right about that. There's a shift in his thinking when he discovers death drive in 1920, there's this shift to thinking that it's actually something like enjoyment. The path to pleasure can be perfectly conscious, as you pointed out. That is absolutely what's at stake in the drive and what'sat stake in beyond the pleasure principle.

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