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Aggression (n.) is repressed Thanatos turned outward as the desire to kill.
The Body (n.) is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction.
Ego (n.) as rider to the id's horse is a metaphor that goes back to Plato's Phaedrus — the old soul-body dualism in a new lingo.
Individuality (n.) is conferred not by an immortal soul but by a mortal body: a creature is unique because it lives its own life and no other — that is, because it dies.
Man (n.) is the organism that represses death, and thereby represses his own individuality: the lilies of the field have it, and we do not.
Maturity (n.) is all: life and death together make up individuality, and both are affirmed at once.
Psychoanalysis (n.) fulfills itself only by becoming historical and cultural analysis, since talk from the couch is still an activity in culture.
Repetition compulsion (n.) fixes the neurotic to the past, estranging him from the present and sending him on an unconscious quest for the past in the future.
Resurrection of the body (n.) is psychoanalysis's real aim: to return our souls to our bodies, not to reanimate some future corpse.
Science (n.) could rest on an erotic sense of reality instead of an aggressive, dominating attitude toward it.