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... death should be the ultimate thing is unthinkable ' . ' If death were that absolute which philosophy vainly sought to conjure up in a positive way , then everything is nothing ; also , everything that we think is thought into the void ...
... death should be the ultimate thing is unthinkable ' . ' If death were that absolute which philosophy vainly sought to conjure up in a positive way , then everything is nothing ; also , everything that we think is thought into the void ...
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... Death , Freud abandons the oneiric model and does not mechanically resort to the process of reversal in dreams , it is because this process does not necessarily refer to an original identity of opposites , since its use can lead to ...
... Death , Freud abandons the oneiric model and does not mechanically resort to the process of reversal in dreams , it is because this process does not necessarily refer to an original identity of opposites , since its use can lead to ...
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... death which no one chooses . The unbearable necessity of death therefore , according to this interpretation , is disguised by the choice of the fairest , most desirable , richest and wisest of women , Portia , whose portrait is ...
... death which no one chooses . The unbearable necessity of death therefore , according to this interpretation , is disguised by the choice of the fairest , most desirable , richest and wisest of women , Portia , whose portrait is ...
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Beyond Postmodernism | 1 |
A Note on the Wartime Writings | 13 |
The Problem of Aesthetic Value | 23 |
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