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A subject is being beaten

A subject is being beaten Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities 3:1 1998 The half-hearted attempts at suicide that he kept making were not really serious; it was not so much a desire for death - death held for him neither peace nor hope - but rather the attempt, at moments of extreme terror or a vacant stillness close to un-being, to restore his equilibrium through physical pain. Georg Büchner, Lenz f, according to Freud, the subject pursues its I own death, or is steered towards it by a drive for inertia, why not say suicide and masochism lie at the heart of life? Is not suicide the "telos" of being human, and why does Freud jib at the idea? Is that the human being's impurity, or was its impurity, rather, in being alive and subject to the colourings and derangements of contingency? My title picks up on Freud's 1919 paper, "A Child is Being Beaten." Freud's title in turn quotes a phrase - one reiterated by several robert smith patients in relating their "beating-phantasies." These phantasies typically progress through three phases, it being the second phase that counts: A SUBJECT IS This first phase of the beating-phantasy is ... BEING BEATEN completely represented http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities Taylor & Francis

A subject is being beaten

Smith, Robert
Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities , Volume 3 (1): 10 – Apr 1, 1998
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Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities 3:1 1998 The half-hearted attempts at suicide that he kept making were not really serious; it was not so much a desire for death - death held for him neither peace nor hope - but rather the attempt, at moments of extreme terror or a vacant stillness close to un-being, to restore his equilibrium through physical pain. Georg Büchner, Lenz f, according to Freud, the subject pursues its I own death, or is steered towards it by a drive for inertia, why not say suicide and masochism lie at the heart of life? Is not suicide the "telos" of being human, and why does Freud jib at the idea? Is that the human being's impurity, or was its impurity, rather, in being alive and subject to the colourings and derangements of contingency? My title picks up on Freud's 1919 paper, "A Child is Being Beaten." Freud's title in turn quotes a phrase - one reiterated by several robert smith patients in relating their "beating-phantasies." These phantasies typically progress through three phases, it being the second phase that counts: A SUBJECT IS This first phase of the beating-phantasy is ... BEING BEATEN completely represented

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