What The Death Drive Can Teach Us



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7 thoughts on “What The Death Drive Can Teach Us”

  1. How long will it take for neoliberal capitalism to incorporate this idead to it self?
    I want death-drive coaches (former stoic experts) to teach about how to join things that are greater then ourselfs and et cetera.

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  2. just a quick Q, how does the act of convincing others that you are happy by posting food pics as inauthentic contrast with the video about bereal a while back where being compelled by an app to post generates something more authentic to yourself. I don't remember the video specifically i think it was deleted.

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  3. These lectures are wonderful. Thank you. I do have to say that we do need the other. Perhaps Lacan's only knowing in the other is not a trap but a key. We can not see ourselves as more important than another and thus in separation because we are in the other. I do not respond to my death drive ( painting) for myself only. Not being able to share the work is poisonous for example in capitalism. My death drive is for my own subjective destiturion on with the other not apart. We see the void of need and identity in the night of the other's eyes?

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  4. So live, that when thy summons comes to join
    The innumerable caravan, which moves
    To that mysterious realm, where each shall take
    His chamber in the silent halls of death,
    Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
    Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed
    By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,
    Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
    About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
    Thanatopsis
    By William Cullen Bryant

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