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I can imagine no greater catastrophe than if I were mistaken, and the theory were correct that what I consider secondary instincts or drives are actually primary instincts! Because in that case the emotional plague would rest upon the support of a natural law while its archenemies, truth and sociality, would be relying upon unfounded ethics. Until now both lies and truth have taken recourse to ethics. But only lies have profited because they were able to appear under the guise of truth. Under these circumstances, egoism, theft, petty selfishness, slander, etc., would be the natural rule. (26.july.1943)


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Described by Elizabeth Danto as a large man with a cantankerous style who managed to look scruffy and elegant at the same time he tried to reconcile psychoanalysis with Marxism arguing that neurosis is rooted in physical sexual and socio-economic conditions and in particular in a lack of what he called "orgastic potency. He lived and worked out of an apartment on Berggasse 7 the street where Freud lived at no. This is proved by the fact that tumors in all parts of the body are disappearing or diminishing.

S. He died in jail of heart failure just over a year later days before he was due to apply for parole.

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