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Progressives and the Death Instinct

Progressives and the Death Instinct

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Sean Kullman
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There are impulses in the psyche that drive people toward death and destruction, sometimes toward others, sometimes toward the self, and sometimes toward both others and the self. Freud wrote about these impulses, first, in Beyond the Pleasure P…

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