Drive vs. Desire | A Lacanian Perspective @RahulSam

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"The fact that the object is not attainable means that drive satisfaction is always partial and makes the thrust revolve around the object indefinitely as a constant force. Accordingly, not only can we characterize the satisfaction of the drive as never reaching its object, we can also say that drive satisfaction is directly derived from the failure to reach it." - Dr Leon S. Brenner, The Autistic Subject

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$Drive vs. Desire | A Lacanian Perspective The fact that the object is not attainable means that drive satisfaction is always partial and makes the thrust revolve around the object indefinitely as a constant force. Accordingly, not only can we characterize the satisfaction of the drive as never reaching its object, we can also say that drive satisfaction is directly derived from the failure to reach it. - Dr Leon S. 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The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt. — Paul Tillich My disquisition on the foremost Existentialist Theologians of the 20th Century, Paul Tillichs The Courage to Be. {Podcast} Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake {Social Media} https://twitter.com/trsam97 https://www.minds.com/trahulsam/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/ https://trahulsam.medium.com/ https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/ Facebook Group: https://goo.gl/JoL9CA {Reference Links} Commentaries & book reviews: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-the-courage-to-be-tillich/#gsc.tab=0 https://people.bu.edu/wwildman/tillich/resources/review_tillich-paul_couragetobe.htm https://youtu.be/srC6ZsH4nwg https://youtu.be/Z3ZZzudEXMU Papers on Tillich and Heidegger: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1509278 https://open.bu.edu/handle/2144/8468 {Music Used} Epidemic Sound: https://bit.ly/2T22q6V {Images & Videos used} - If the ideas I discuss in this channel evoke your interest, consider visiting REALM: https://www.realmprojectau.com/ Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. 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