PHIL 1062 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Communist Manifesto, Preconscious, Mental Process
4 Feb 2018
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Freud, the ego and the id and fight club. Missing notes on last lecture on nietzsche and on communist manifesto: 2nd reading on contemporary civil society. Goal 1: avoid happiness goal 2: prolong any ongoing inner conflict. 2 goals of life: seek a balance between your id, your ego and your super-ego, implies that there is an internal battle, avoid mental illness, or if you cannot avoid it what causes you to feel bad. Seek balance: implies that there is an internal battle. Your mind starts like a little baby = id. Contains two types of different instincts, aka drives/impulsions. [increasing order] basically the impulse of making sense of the world around you. Death = thanatos bringing life back to its inanimate state: this is different from erotic drives death drive has goal of making life more complicate", decreasing order in life.
