Analyzing a Psychoanalyst's Drive

As the essay moves along, the figure of the drive becomes increasingly prominent in it. It's almost as though he is telling the story of how we have to confront the drive as a concept. He does quite literally say that at one point, I don't have it in front of me immediately, but he says that he is a well aware that his idea of the drive has not been taken up by other psycho analysts. So he's trying to find ways to justify it. But if you are paying attention ahead of time, if you listen to this before you read the essay, then you'll notice this arc,. like almost this narrative arc where he is attempting to position the drive as unavoidable