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Quotation from Beyond the Pleasure Principle by Sigmund Freud
“These circuitous ways to death, faithfully retained by the conservative instincts, would be neither more nor less than the phenomena of life as we now know it”
Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Ch. V, trans. C. J. M. Hubback (1922)
The culmination of Freud's argument that instinct seeks an earlier state: life itself becomes a long detour back to the inorganic.
Citation: "These circuitous ways to death, faithfully retained by the conservative instincts, would be neither more nor less than the phenomena of life as we now know it" — Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Ch. V, trans. C. J. M. Hubback (1922). (id freud-beyond-the-pleasure-principle-q5)
