Choosing life generally requires some external source of psychological energy. When this source is out in the open, social identity and life are the same thing. Social death is the cutting off that source. You then have to find a dark energy source.
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Hmm. Interesting. I can see that being a very good interpretation of dragon mythologies.
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Freud called this psychical energy "libido" and often used a metaphor of electricity to describe it: libido charges objects, is stored in the ego, etc. His idea of Cathexis attempts to explain how this energy flows in more detail. Might be interesting.
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