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1		-==Part 1 – The Debate Space==
2		-====Welcome to LD debate, where every two months we’re assigned a relevant political topic to analyze and research. We then discuss it, debating whether or not a hypothetical plan will make the world a better place. Through this process, we gain education about a variety of issues that allow us go out into society and do our part to make it better. But something is missing from this narrative, a question that has never been answered – why are we pursuing a better world in the first place?====
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4		-====Political thought, since its conception, has been dogmatically bound to the idea of a “good” society at the end of the road – we endlessly pursue ways to solve society’s problems, never realizing that that very pursuit is the problem.====
5		-====McGowan====, Todd. Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis. Lincoln, U of Nebraska P, 2013. WC
6		-The great challenge … to be progressing.
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8		-====The reason we can never solve these problems is because we haven't factored in the psychological force that created them – the death drive. The death drive is based on an unconscious enjoyment that can only be sustained through perpetual loss. Without addressing the drive, any action is doomed to failure from the moment it’s conceived.====
9		-====McGowan 2==== (Todd. Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis. Lincoln, U of Nebraska P, 2013.) WC
10		-The death drive … to their good.
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12		-====Failure to recognize the death drive locks us into cycles of failure that ultimately culminate in extinction – fundamentally rethinking our politics is the only way to break out.====
13		-====McGowan 3==== (Todd. Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis. Lincoln, U of Nebraska P, 2013.) WC
14		-Unlike Herbert Marcuse, … of progress altogether.
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16		-====The judge should thus vote to deconstruct the pursuit of the good within debate. This is a prerequisite to everything else, without radically challenging the way that we approach progress any action is doomed to perpetual failure, ultimately resulting in extinction.====
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18		-====The ballot is, by nature, an endorsement of one team’s performance as superior to the other’s, meaning that if we can win our methodology is net-better than theirs, you should vote Aff to endorse it.====
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20		-==Part 2 – Methodology==
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22		-====We propose a psychoanalytic examination of the death drive; rejecting traditional, progress-based epistemologies in exchange for radical inaction. Instead of projecting better future worlds through a barrage of hypothetical policies, we challenge the psychological structures that replicate suffering within the status quo.====
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24		-====The alt is key — examining the structures of desire and enjoyment is the only way to break out of the cycles of failure and channel the death drive away from catastrophe.====
25		-====McGowan 4==== (Todd. Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis. Lincoln, U of Nebraska P, 2013.) WC
26		-There is no ... it remains lost.
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28		-====This card is based on the idea of external and internal limits. When we try to get from where we are now to an imaginary better future, we will see an “Other” standing in our way – the external limit to our enjoyment. For the Nazi’s, this limit was the Jews, for Trump, it’s immigrants. The alt allows us to re-orient ourselves to this limit. By abandoning the pursuit of a better future, we accept the “Other” as the internal, self-imposed limit to our enjoyment, thus making it merely a figure, rather than embodied by an actual group.====
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30		-====The alt is the only way to abandon the pursuit of a better world – we are a negation of power, a kritik of the underlying assumptions of policy action, as opposed to the traditional positive action that is used in pursuit of a fictional “good society”.====
31		-====McGowan 5==== (Todd. Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis. Lincoln, U of Nebraska P, 2013.) WC
32		-Political theorists of … of revolt culture.
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34		-==Part 3 – Not Solvency==
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36		-====Our alt doesn’t solve, it doesn’t create a better world, it doesn’t eliminate the problems of the status quo. It instead operates as a pre-requisite to change. We aren’t complacent with oppression, but rather a challenge to the psychological structure that produces oppression to begin with.====
37		-====McGowan 6==== (Todd. Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis. Lincoln, U of Nebraska P, 2013.) WC
38		-Underlying a position … may appropriate it.
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40		-===Subpoint A – Death Drive===
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42		-====The alt is the only real option – the death drive is inherent within our psyche, making our methodology the only way to challenge problems within the status quo.====
43		-====Mills====, Jon. "Reflections on the Death Drive." Process Psychology.com, 2006, www.processpsychology.com/new-articles2/Freud20on20Todestrieb.pdf. Accessed 25 Nov. 2016. Dr. Mills is a board certified clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, and a certified member in good standing with the Canadian Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology. He holds six university and post-graduate degrees including two doctorates, as well as post-doctoral training and international scholarly recognition. With twenty years of clinical experience, he specializes in the assessment and treatment of many psychological disorders upon which he is widely published. He is founding President of the Section on Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology of the Canadian Psychological Association, Editor of two international book series, author and/or editor of over one-hundred publications including twelve books, and teaches as Core Faculty and clinical supervisior at the Adler School of Graduate Studies in Toronto. He is the only psychologist in Canada with double board certification in clinical psychology and psychoanalysis. WC
44		-What could be … to begin with.
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46		-====All other theories fail, they cannot fully account for the psychological structures that operate as the root cause of any given problem.====
47		-Mills, Jon. "Reflections on the Death Drive." Process Psychology.com, 2006, www.processpsychology.com/new-articles2/Freud20on20Todestrieb.pdf. Accessed 25 Nov. 2016. Dr. Mills is a board certified clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, and a certified member in good standing with the Canadian Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology. He holds six university and post-graduate degrees including two doctorates, as well as post-doctoral training and international scholarly recognition. With twenty years of clinical experience, he specializes in the assessment and treatment of many psychological disorders upon which he is widely published. He is founding President of the Section on Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology of the Canadian Psychological Association, Editor of two international book series, author and/or editor of over one-hundred publications including twelve books, and teaches as Core Faculty and clinical supervisior at the Adler School of Graduate Studies in Toronto. He is the only psychologist in Canada with double board certification in clinical psychology and psychoanalysis. WC
48		-Freud’s thesis on … progression and decay.
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50		-===Subpoint B – The Unconscious===
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52		-====The second net-benefit to the alt is its interaction with unconscious knowledge. All other forms of political thought assume our conscious knowledge is the extent of our psyche, however, psychoanalysis reveals that it’s only the tip of the iceberg. Instead, it’s our unconscious – the realm of our psyche formed by our suppressed desires and drives – that acts as the basis for all of our actions. Only through the alt can we bracket off our conscious knowledge and examine the underlying structures of the unconscious that would otherwise doom any action to serial policy failure.====
53		-====McGowan 7==== (Todd. Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis. Lincoln, U of Nebraska P, 2013.) WC
54		-But knowledge and … has lost it.
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56		-==Part 4 – Framing==
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58		-===A - Interpretation===
59		-====The judge should act as a decision-maker and vote for the best methodology – the burden of the negative is thus to provide a competitive counter-methodology to the Aff, and whichever side wins that their methodology is superior gets the ballot.====
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61		-===B – Reasons to Prefer===
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64		-====Analytics====
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67		-==Underview==
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69		-====Experimental data and empirical evidence prove that psychoanalysis is both falsifiable and valid.====
70		-====Petocz====, professor at the University of Western Sydney, ====15====
71		-PhD in Psychology, currently teaches history, psychology, and critical thinking at the University of Western Sydney. Visiting researcher at the Department of Philosophy, Kings College, London University in 2000 (Agnes, 1/12/2015, “The scientific status of psychoananalysis revisited”, Philosophy, Science, and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Meeting SM)
72		-A reservoir of … (Mills, ZIIJ7, p. 540)
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74		-====Clinical studies also support psychoanalysis; Mahrer, Robinson, Dufresne, and most other critics are hacks – they have pre-existing biases against psychoanalysis without really understanding the theory.====
75		-====Mills====, Jon. "Reflections on the Death Drive." Process Psychology.com, 20====06====, www.processpsychology.com/new-articles2/Freud20on20Todestrieb.pdf. Accessed 25 Nov. 2016. WC
76		-Freud’s thesis on … to begin with.
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78		-====Prefer this card because:====
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81		-====1. Jon Mills has 6 degrees including 2 PhD’s, as well as post-doctoral training and international scholarly recognition. He has more than 30 years of clinical experience, has published 12 books and over 100 other publications, is the editor of two international book series, a professor at the Adler School of Graduate Studies, the founding president of the Section on Psychoanalysis in the Canadian Psychological Association, and is the only psychologist in Canada with double board certification in clinical psychology and psychoanalysis.====
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83		-====2. It’s specific to the theory of the death drive – hold any indicts to the same threshold. Generic a2 psychoanalysis cards are based on specific instances that aren’t representative – like saying all medicine is a hoax because Dr. Oz is. Psychoanalysis is a diverse field; we only defend the theory of the death drive.====
84		-====And, we don’t defend Freud’s problematic rhetoric – it was a product of his historical situation, not inherent in his philosophical works. The theory of psychoanalysis can thus be separated from Freud’s rhetoric, meaning you evaluate the kritik based on what we say, not on something that someone said hundreds of years ago.====
85		-====McGowan 8==== (Todd. Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis. Lincoln, U of Nebraska P, 2013.) WC
86		-The problem with …human society itself.

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