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Civilization and Its Discontents

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The Relationship Between Death Drive and Super Ego

I think it's a really hard question. I almost think this is one of the great problems that not enough people try to deal with thinking through the relationship between death drive and super ego. My idea is that it has to be this that, that death drive, that super, sorry, that super ego takes up death drive and re-channels it into self-assault. That actually doesn't free you in the way that death drive frees you. It actually further imprisons you once it's diverted into this super egoic channel. But I don't know. I mean, that's just my idea.

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