
Episode 116: Freud on Dreams
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Death Drive
Schopenhauer's theory of the death drive is that there are basic self destructive forces at work in human beings which are not reducible to pleasure seeking gone wrong, basicaly. So if you wake up to your alarm or something, younow. A lot of times these outside noises are incorporated into the dreams. That that's one way of the dream being trying to let you keep sleeping. And so ye, you're going to feel some weird stuff when you're riding a horse in your crotch area, and that's just natural. And you can just keep on sleep and don't let that wake you up.
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