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-The Aff attempts to solve police violence by reforming an obscure legal doctrine while ignoring the psychological structure that produces that violence in the first place – the death drive. The death drive is based on an inner enjoyment that can only be sustained through perpetual loss. Their ignorance of the death drive dooms the Affirmative to cycles of policy failure – forever pursuing a future without police brutality, while it is that very pursuit that perpetuates violence. |
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-McGowan 13(Todd. Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis. Lincoln, U of Nebraska P, 2013. WC) |
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-The death drive ... to their good. |
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-Police carry out violence against the other, not out of necessity, but because they see the other as the external limit to their enjoyment that must be eliminated in order to attain the utopian ideal of safety. This turns the Aff, they perpetuate the root cause of the problem. |
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-Continued failure to recognize the death drive not only turns case but results in extinction – fundamentally rethinking our politics is key. |
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-McGowan 13(Todd. Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis. Lincoln, U of Nebraska P, 2013. WC) |
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-Unlike Herbert Marcuse ... of progress altogether. |
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-Thus the alt is psychoanalysis—examining the structure of desire and enjoyment rather than projecting better political worlds is the only means of channeling the death drive away from catastrophe. |
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-McGowan 13(Todd. Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis. Lincoln, U of Nebraska P, 2013. WC) |
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-There is no ... it remains lost. |