This essay concludes by suggesting Plato may have been correct in the view put forth in the Symposium that humanity was once a single entity split, and that sexual instincts are a manifestation of the desire to reunite.
In the "fort-da" episode of this work, the author describes a small boy who enjoys throwing toys out of his crib, and compares the boy's game with the dreams of shellshocked soldiers as examples of "repetition compulsion." This work cites experiments performed by Woodruff to claim that "conjugation" among protozoa prolongs their lives, and proposes that malignant growth results from "narcissistic" cells. This essay concludes by suggesting Plato may have been correct in the view put forth in the Symposium that humanity was once a single entity split, and that sexual instincts are a manifestation of the desire to reunite. Those instincts are countered by "the most universal tendency of all living matterÂ—to return to the peace of the inorganic world." For 10 points, name this essay by Sigmund Freud which introduces the death instinct as a means to explain instances where the title concept is apparently ignored.
In the "fort-da" episode of this work, the author describes a small boy who enjoys throwing toys out of his crib, and compares the boy's game with the dreams of shellshocked soldiers as examples of "repetition compulsion.
Beyond the Pleasure Principle [or Jenseits des Lustprinzips]