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Why Theory

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What I'm Not Sure About Is Desire

Sard: I think that for him, desire is just the desire to take and gobble things up. He doesn't want to undermine oneself or even have somebody else do it for me. For Freud, desire sort of thinks desire wants to realize itself,. To achieve this conquest. Sard has just no conception of that at all. And so he's nostalgic about an earlier epoch when we had some more direct access to things.

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