"No,I don't have a death wish. I just happen to think that judging an entire group of people based on the actions of a few individuals within that group is morally wrong."

VOA: special.2010.01.20

That's a crucial mistake that we make when we first try to come to terms with what Freud means by "the death wish."

如果我们一开始就试图理解弗洛伊德所谓的,“死亡冲动“就犯了大错误了“

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She was meant to remember. She faced that possibility as she might the toy street from a high balcony, roller-coaster ride, feeding time among the beasts in a zoo, any death wish that can be consummated by some minimum gesture.

她生来就是为了回忆的，她面临着一种可能性,当她在一个高高的阳台看着玩具街时，当她坐过山车时，当她在动物园里喂野兽时，通过一个小小的手势。

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I did not wish his death.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

It's one that I suppose we could continue to entertain as a kind of skepticism about this way of understanding the compulsion to repeat as somehow necessarily entailing a theory of the death wish.

所以我觉得我们可以把它当作一个,对强迫性重复作为死亡冲动的理论依据的怀疑,看看就行。

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