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What USers call “freedom” is better known to psychoanalysis as “death-drive”
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freud defined the Death Drive as the subject's refusal to acknowledge its own mortality on anything other than its own non-negotiable terms, no matter whom that kills or what that destroys, self and other included, but we Americans do one better and succinctly call it freedom twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/s…
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I mostly know death drive as the thing that reins in the life drive and makes things predictable (things like apoptosis and intelligence are death drive) - so most freedoms really are aligned with the life drive
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