Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Miike Snow's "Animal" and Freud

Miike Snow's "Animal" reminds me of CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS and Freud's assertion that we have all experienced the force of Eros v. Thanatos:

The element of truth behind all this, which people are so ready to disavow, is that men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved, and who at the most can defend themselves if they are attacked; they are, on the contrary, creatures among whose instinctual endowments is to be reckoned a powerful share of aggressiveness. As a result, their neighbour is for them not only a potential helper or sexual object, but also someone who tempts them to satisfy their aggressiveness on him, to exploit his capacity for work without compensation, to use him sexually without his consent, to seize his possessions, to humiliate him, to cause him pain, to torture and to kill him. Homo homini lupus. Who, in the face of all his experience of life and of history, will have the courage to dispute this assertion?

Snow's "Animal" seems aware of Thanatos and suggests we disguise it to hide in civilization:

I change shapes just to hide in this place
But I'm still I'm still an animal
Nobody knows it but me when I slip, yeah I slip
I'm still an animal

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