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... nature of living matter , as an inherent tendency to go back to a former state . He spoke of the basic importance of the " death instinct , " a striving for return to inorganic existence . According to Freud's economy principle , man ...
... nature of living matter , as an inherent tendency to go back to a former state . He spoke of the basic importance of the " death instinct , " a striving for return to inorganic existence . According to Freud's economy principle , man ...
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... natural forms is the result of the corre- spondingly simple distribution of the forces that created the object . These forms visibly manifest the tendency toward simplicity in nature . If this is a general tendency , why is regular ...
... natural forms is the result of the corre- spondingly simple distribution of the forces that created the object . These forms visibly manifest the tendency toward simplicity in nature . If this is a general tendency , why is regular ...
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... nature . Remoteness expresses itself by limiting the representation to particular features of reality — a limitation that is necessary with ornament because it serves to sustain the character of a specific object . There is , then , a ...
... nature . Remoteness expresses itself by limiting the representation to particular features of reality — a limitation that is necessary with ornament because it serves to sustain the character of a specific object . There is , then , a ...
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