ENGL 3Q93 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Judith Butler, Fetishism, Antiseptic
14 Jan 2016
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Wright begins her chapter by trying to give you an overall framework to which you make sense of some of the more specific concepts we will discuss later on. Dynamic, economic, and the topographical perspective: dynamic the perspective in which drives are pitted against necessity. The life drive manifests itself, the purpose is not you, the whole purpose is to propagate something and make it immortal through the centuries. Basically, the propagation of the human species rather than the human individual. You are expendable, your ego does not matter what matter is the propagation of the species. With the death drive the individual matters more, everyone wants to die in their own way, our lives are totally unremarkable and in our death we assert our uniqueness. Everyone wants to find their own way back to the state of in animation. Drive theory for freud frames the overarching framework of his psychological and cultural analysis: economic derivative of the dynamic perspective.
