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She could turn this into her own little anti-liberal-bogeyman horse-and-pony show because there simply is no possibility of her actually being successfully primaried absent a Democratic Todestrieb.
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Even though it is from 1994 (and it's metaphorical use of the Freudian Todestrieb might be a little questionable), it would certainly be interesting to apply it to certain ongoing debates about the New Weird, or Fabulist Fiction, or Fantastika ...
A Link Hal Duncan 2008
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A veteran relives the trenches for the same reason that another man recreates the trench warfare of his family—not only to revisit and “work out” that formative trauma, not only to have the opportunity to play out the drama with the odds evened up a bit, but also out of an inborn and perverse attraction to horror itself: the Todestrieb “death instinct”, Freud called it.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010
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119 Todestrieb “death instinct”: Gay, Freud, 391–92; Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, 68–69.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010
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