“The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life.”
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“I came to consider the instinct as nothing more than the "motor aspect of pleasure."
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― The Function of the Orgasm
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― The Function of the Orgasm
“Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.”
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“I can imagine no greater catastrophe than if I were mistaken, and the theory were correct that what I consider secondary instincts or drives are actually primary instincts! Because in that case the emotional plague would rest upon the support of a natural law while its archenemies, truth and sociality, would be relying upon unfounded ethics. Until now both lies and truth have taken recourse to ethics. But only lies have profited because they were able to appear under the guise of truth. Under these circumstances, egoism, theft, petty selfishness, slander, etc., would be the natural rule. (26.july.1943)”
― American Odyssey: Letters & Journals, 1940-1947
― American Odyssey: Letters & Journals, 1940-1947
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