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Civilization and Its Discontents

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Psychoanalysis - Is There Just One Objet Out There?

The idea of psychoanalysis is that we have to actually lose an object into desirability, into making something desirable. "Super ego does not marshal that force of drive and force that loss into being something socially productive," he says. 'There's no way to appease it because it's trying to ask you to do something that's impossible'

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