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starting the year off strong✨ this will be a big reading year for the engl degree reads list lol.

enjoying the biology discussions :]

basically impossible to read but so far pleasure=economics?

Eg forstår ikkje ein dritt. Eg forstår ikkje eit einaste ord. Eg e dom som ait brød. Eg må droppa ut av uni...

i am once again reading beyond the pleasure principle

“His Majesty the Baby, zoals men eens zichzelf waande”

Rereading to teach!

"One of our strongest motives for believing in the existence of death drives is indeed the fact that we have perceived the dominant tendency of the psyche, and perhaps of nervous life in general, to be the constant endeavour–as manifested in the pleasure principle - to reduce inner stimulative tension, to maintain it at a steady level, to resolve it completely (the Nirvana principle, as Barbara Low has called it)."

"As we have already learnt from the research carried out on protista, the coalescence of two individuals without subsequent [cell-]division (i.e. conjugation) has a strengthening and rejuvenating effect on both individuals, assuming that they separate from each other soon afterwards (see above, p. 87; cf. also Lipschütz)."

"Isn’t it altogether plausible to suppose that this sadism is actually a death drive that has been ousted from the ego at the instance of the narcissistic libido, and as a result only becomes apparent in conjunction with the object?"

All the sublimations and reaction-formations and surrogate-formations in the world are never enough to resolve the abiding tension; and the gulf between the level of gratificatory pleasure demanded and the level actually achieved produces that driving force that prevents the individual from resting content with any situation he ever contrives, and instead–as the poet says–he ‘presses ever onward unbridled, untamed.

"Thus arises the paradox that the living organism resists in the most energetic way external influences (‘dangers’) that could help it to take a short cut to its life's goal (to short-circuit the system, as it were);"

"The goal of all life is death, or to express it retrospectively: the inanimate existed before the animate."

I’m reading this with an open mind. I’m cognizant of the fact that a century since this book was published much has been written, said and criticized about the “philosophy”—intentional word choice—of one Doctor Sigmund Freud. That said, I thought it would be nice to enter the new year reading about the ideas that have shaped the world we live in today. Whether I glean any new insights is another matter but stay tuned

in the end we must necessarily start loving if we are not to fall ill

Motiveerivaid sõnu paluks!! #kisubkarvaseks

"A evolução humana, até agora, não me parece necessitar de explicação diferente daquela dos animais, e o que observamos de incansável ímpeto rumo à perfeição, numa minoria de indivíduos, pode ser entendido como consequência da repressão instintual em que se baseia o que há de mais precioso na cultura humana."

facts

Guys please ignore I’m just on my Freud grind

Here we go in Psychoanalysis class!

Interessante, n tá difícil de ler

Two notes. (1) Many of the thinkers in this volume disagree with Freud, and some of them even disagree with the disagreements of others. That makes the book fascinating. (2) It takes a good deal of time to read this at night, then to reread bits and think them over and make notes in the morning. That’s one reason I’m making slow progress.

I’m reading this for a particular purpose and probably don’t need all the ancillary discussion. Still, I’m glad for it, because it’s much more illuminating than reading Freud’s essay alone would have been. And I’m encountering the work of many authors I’ve read little or nothing of before, such as Jacques Lacan and Norman O. Brown.

Freud, borrowing a term from a fellow analyst, sometimes uses “nirvana principle” to represent “the tendency of the death drive.” Not even practitioners of extinction Buddhism go so far as to seek death (that I know of), but Freud isn’t trying to speak for Buddhists in this usage.

Like Marx, Freud still matters. This recently published edition of BPP, from 2011, featuring a new translation and loads of related material (much like a Norton Critical Edition), is evidence of it.

Malabou me mandó directamente a retomar mi proyecto de leer a Freud que tuve el 2017. Es muy interesante que, desde hace ya muchos años, he tenido intereses de estudio muy similares. Hoy debido a lo que he estudiado en todos estos años, puedo retomar con aún más pasión que al principio este proyecto de resolver mis inquietudes, de una forma ordenada y reorientada.

I thought putting this on goodreads would motivate me to do my uni reading…

Spoiler: it did Not

segane udukogu

hmmm… ma ei vihka sesa!?!?!!

On Hold until I get a better hard copy version.