Freud(e) oder Horney?
drives, or culture: a tiny fragment setting up a huge debate from psychoanalysis
Zweig, in defence of Freud and drives:
“I often mentioned the horrors of Hitler’s world and the war in those conversations with Freud. As a humane man, he was deeply distressed by that terrible outbreak of bestiality, but as a thinker he was not at all surprised. He had always been considered a pessimist, he said, because he denied the supremacy of culture over our instinctive drives, and current events confirmed in the most dreadful way – not that he was proud of it – his opinion that it is impossible to root the elemental, barbaric destructive drive out of the human psyche. Perhaps, he said, some means of at least suppressing such instincts in the communal life of nations might be found in centuries yet to come, but they would remain ineradicable forces in daily life and fundamental human nature, and maybe they were necessary to maintain a vital tension” (Zweig, The World of Yesterday, Anthea Bell trans., 450).
Horney, revision in relation to three decades of clinical experience and remorseless self analysis:
"When we focus our attention on the actual neurotic difficulties we recognize that neuroses are generated not only by incidental individual experiences, but also by the specific cultural conditions under which we live. In fact the cultural conditions not only lend weight and color to the individual experiences but in the last analysis determine their particular form. It is an individual fate, for example, to have a domineering or a "self-sacrificing" mother, but it is only under definite cultural conditions that we find domineering or self-sacrificing mothers, and it is also only because of these existing conditions that such an experience will have an influence on later life".
"When we realize the great import of cultural conditions on neuroses the biological and physiological conditions, which are considered by Freud to be their root, recede into the background. The influence of these latter factors should be considered only on the basis of well established evidence".
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Oh, the suns going down, the nights coming in
I got a brain for business and a body for sin
So shoot like a rocket 'cause my engine is hot
If you want whats forbidden baby that's what I got
Sex drive, sex drive, sex drive
Sex drive, sex drive, sex drive
Sex drive it sees no gender or color
So let's get together and collide with each other
Sex drive, aw you know how it feels
Get out of my car and get under my wheels
Sex drive, sex drive, sex drive
Sex drive
French kisses a thing of the past
Were too young to die so we'd better live fast
The dying is easy the urge is so hard
If your looking for funking then get into my car
I'm a Mercedes Benz so why don't you jump in
I got a rear view mirror you can watch us in
The harder you drive the smoother I go
I got my engine running
Sex drive it sees no gender or color
So let's get together and collide with each other
Sex drive, aw you know how it feels
Get out of my car and get under my wheels
Sex drive, sex drive, sex drive
Sex drive
Oh, the suns coming down, the nights coming in
I got a brain for business and a body for sin
So shoot like a rocket 'cause my engine is hot
If you want whats forbidden baby that's what I got
Sex drive it sees no gender or color
So let's get together and collide with each other
Sex drive, aw you know how it feels
Get out of my car and get under my wheels
Sex drive
Get under my wheels
Get under my wheels
Get under my wheels
Sex drive it sees no gender or color
So let's get together and collide with each other
Sex drive, aw you know how it feels
Get out of my car and get under my wheels
Sex drive, sex drive, sex drive
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Here in my car
I feel safest of all
I can lock all my doors
It's the only way to live – in cars
Here in my car
I can only receive
I can listen to you
It keeps me stable for days – in cars
Here in my car
Where the image breaks down
Will you visit me, please
If I open my door – in cars?
Here in my car
I know I've started to think
About leaving tonight
Although nothing seems right – in cars