Thanatos: The Death Wish

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In my previous posting about Freud’s thinking on the death instinct, the death drive – Thanatos – delineated in his brilliant Beyond the Pleasure Principle, I applied the drive toward death as a metaphor for the drive to insignificance by UFOers who keep raising the specter of Roswell in UFO discussions.

But the awareness by academics of the Freudian insight actually applies more to the Trump-inspired folks protesting the sensible “stay at home” dictum of persons who want to deny death its eminence over life, something Trumpsters are too dumb to see.

The Trump-advocates are courting death in exactly the way Freud elucidates in his masterful explication of human instincts (drives).

Find more about Beyond the Pleasure Principle and see how wrong Anti-Freudians are about the great man and his theories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Pleasure_Principle

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