Status Updates From An Outline of Psychoanalysis

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“After a vain attempt to do the same as the boy, the girl comes to recognize her lack of a penis or, rather, the inferiority of her clitoris. This has permanent consequences for her character-development; as a result of this first disappointment in rivalry she often initially rejects sexual life altogether.”

Penis envy is such a funny concept to me

“If we assume that the living appeared later than the lifeless and arose from this, then the death-drive fits into the formula I have mentioned, namely that drives strive to restore everything to an earlier state.”

The aim of the first drive (Eros) is to establish and maintain ever greater unities, that is, ‘binding’; the aim of the second (Destruction-drive) is, by contrast, to dissolve connections, and thus to destroy things.

“After much wavering, we have decided to propose only two basic drives: Eros and the destruction-drive. (The opposition between the self-preservation and species-preservation drives, along with the other opposition between Ich-Iove and object-love, still falls within Eros.)”

“The Über-lch may assert new needs, but its main function remains the restriction of gratifications.”