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#not even GETTING INTO the works that were inspired by Freud’s beyond the pleasure principal
conflictofthemind · 4 months
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so basically…..Will is Eros/Cupid who, as well as being the Greek/Roman god of (romantic) love, is the concept of ‘the will to live’ and ‘the life force’ in Freudian psychology. and Eros in Freudian is not only actually about sex like most Freud stuff but ‘becoming’ and ‘creating’ - art is specifically mentioned here - which is diametrically opposed to the other force which is called ‘the death instinct’ and was expanded upon by other psychoanalysts as being represented by the Greek/Roman god of death, Thanatos. and Thanatos has a twin brother who is Hypnos (the god of sleep) Henry and Edward Creel truthers? and this is part of Freud’s obsession with dreams, as in this work he changed his mind about nightmares always representing repressed desire but that they are ‘repetition compulsion’ - the tendency for people to repeat traumatic events in their memory and also the tendency for us to fall back into similar traumas and abusive dynamics. the compulsion to repeat was directly tied into the death drive / Thanatos. Vecna shows his victims their traumas within their dreams and pushes them to accept death. in this upcoming essay I will-
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