Saturday, November 19, 2011

I think this is the primitive animal instinct in certain species…update 4

Thanatos, which seeks to terminate and disintegrate life.

Melanie Klein - Psychology Wiki

…that gets turned in on the self without any understanding of its real origins.  I think disintegrate is of course a 19th century term used to describe the primitive animal instincts from which we have long distanced ourselves.   It is more like to rip into and devour the parts…

Why the female development has lagged behind man’s.  I can’t help but think of the Egyptians and trepanning and now they’ve discovered a mummy with a severed arm.  

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