Teaching #Freud 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle'. Repeating trauma to find resolution makes sense: see #Winnicott 'Fear of Breakdown'. While a biological #deathdrive makes less sense, there is comfort in seeing death as universally inevitable, as well as individual: #JacquelineRose 'The Plague'.

Randomly, our morning conversation today happened to be about teddy bears, dollies, poppets and #Winnicott's idea of the #TransitionalObject: the child's first possession, treated as significant / sentient by caregivers. This forms the bridge between the inner fantasy life and consensual reality.