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Freud presents a certain hypothesis in Beyond the Pleasure Principle.
(In Thalassa, (especially) Ferenczi echoes some of the same sensibility only through his lens, as it were. Countless of other books do as well.
And it raises a point/question.
If the tendency of the sexual instinct is to restore an earlier state of things (before life ws sexually differentiated) in the culmination of the orgasm, then isn't that just like going back to the creation of the universe before the big bang and before the substance of the universe was exploded into separate particles?
Isn't our dream state analogous as well?
And isn't death also analogous?
Do we not unconsciously will our own deaths at times?
I think philosophy and the like can be very dangerous.
Do not tread if one is not prepared.
Everyone knows the famous Burroughs quote about writing being the most dangerous profession.
If Eros and Thantos are one, which they are, then it only follows that it's possible for one to open a doorway into which one unconsciously wills their own death.
Freud illustrates his hypothesis with the myth from Plato's Symposium, deriving sexual differentiation from the bisection of a primal hermaphroditic body. His Moses & Monotheism is interesting and a good primer because in the later work he attempts to translate the concepts of individual-psychology into mass-psychology. It's also interesting because one can psychoanalyze Freud himself by this late point in his career.
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