NPU Episode 12: Freud and the Death Drive

Ryan Mathews
Ryan Mathews
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Published 2016-07-17
In this segment, Stalin talks about the struggles Sigmund Freud had reconciling his theories about pleasure with World War one and the PTSD returning soldiers had. If dreams were wish fulfillment, then why are these soldiers dreaming about death?

Excerpt from Ne Plus Ultra - Episode 12: Freudian Nightmares

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Edited by yours truly, Rin Mathews
All Comments (15)
  • @swolemoth
    This is precisely the sort of presentation I was looking for; an introduction and explanation of Freuds death principle that was intelligent, but short enough that it wasn't an actual lecture.
  • @jackw8827
    The problem with the idea of ID and ego is that human beings probably evolved to internalize the importance of the group so what's important for their in group is actually sort of part of their id.
  • @samcopeland3155
    The Ego and the Id was written after Beyond the Pleasure Principle. The Id/Ego/Superego theory is a revision of the Eros/Death Drive theory, not the other way round as you suggest at 3:13
  • @patriciagleiser9474
    It is not reviving it to fulfill nothing. It's about control. The reenactment of trauma provides a little string of control over the situation. Not much difference like when an abused child turns out to be an abuser adult.
  • @smallsignals
    Isn’t that Maslow’s hierarchy of needs though?
  • @TimmyMcAllister
    Wait but why does the video end with the USSR national anthem?
  • @damianbylightning6823
    Freud was the 1st to hypothesise that humans had more needs than just the base ones? Nietzsche arrived at this conclusion and said it in a much clearer and more interesting way. Freud is ersatz Nietzsche with added pseudo-science and state power.
  • @kellyhiggins4234
    Bottom line is we all start at birth once we cry and are rewarded we begin our path. I wish we had more studies on human behavior there simply isn't enough infact we have more nassisitic crazed people in this world than we have ever had and it all stems from the beginning of our life with mother ...But, there's her beginnings and her mothers beginnings does this pass on through generational behaviors or our DNA? Could our scientists genetically designed behaviors? Whom here I go wondering off into my world of thoughts which started in my life as soon as I saw the moon . 😊♥️😊