I don’t feel like entering a debate on this right now, but I believe it is.
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Replying to @hexagr
I agree that Thanatos *can* be conceptualized as an oversimplification of other phenomena, but I think there was a serious flaw in Freud's thinking about it (that's more than just oversimplification).
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Replying to @hexagr
Although this wasn't Freud's error, it's incorrect to conceptualize Thanatos as "risk-seeking" because a more parsimonious explanation to risk-seeking behavior is actually Eros (the "Life Drive" or whatever).
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Similar reasoning can be applied to Freud's explanation of Thanatos -- everything can be explained in terms of Eros or in terms of some other contingency, until there is no Thanatos left.
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I'm not familiar enough with non-orientability analogy to respond definitely with "yes" or "no," but there seems to be no psychology pointing towards Thanatos, yes.
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For an extreme example, consider the spiders whose mothers "sacrifice" themselves to become food for their offspring https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/09/spiders-mothers-cannibals-arachnids/ …
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What could be more "Thanatos-like" than that?! And yet even here, the only reason this occurs because the "directive to reproduce" (Eros in Freudian sense) takes precedence.
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The will to live is the will to die in the same way that all heat is of the same kind.
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