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-====The 1AC has painted the picture of a better world on the horizon – one where college campuses are free of censorship and open to the productive exchange of ideas. On face, this narrative seems to be one of liberty and progress, one that promises a better future – therein lies the problem.==== |
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-====The dogmatic pursuit of legislative ways to solve society’s problems ignores the psychological structure that produces those problems 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 drive dooms the Affirmative to cycles of policy failure – forever pursuing a brighter future while it is that very pursuit that keeps it out of reach.==== |
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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 is ... to their good. |
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-====The root cause of their harms is the perception that there is a brighter future on the horizon, but something is standing in the way of that future – an “other” figure that operates as the external limit to our enjoyment – for Nazi Germany it was the Jews, for Stalin it was political dissidents. The pursuit of a better future thus necessitates the silencing of the other – this is the root cause of censorship and violence. Outweighs and turns the Aff, their pre-fiat representations perpetuate the utopian logic that justifies censorship.==== |
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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 3 (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 4 (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. |
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-====The alt is a prerequisite to the Aff – the death drive inevitably undermines their pursuit of freedom.==== |
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-Roch, Aleksandra. "Turning negative into positive- duality of the 'death drive' and its influence on art." Academia.edu, 2008, www.academia.edu/9958823/ Turning_negative_into_positive-_duality_of_the_death_drive_and_its_influence_on_a rt?auto=download. Accessed 21 Jan. 2017. WC |
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-The desire that ... the primary object. |