
Civilization and Its Discontents
Why Theory
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The Death Drive, Part 2 - Super Ego
Wickham: I think if you understood it in terms of death drive, wouldn't you say that they're coming together in order to break up as a whole? Wickham: The enjoyment comes from the separation. He says super ego is basically an assault on subjectivity in the name of the social order but it doesn't help anything. "It just does damage. It doesn't have there's no upside to it," he writes.
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