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• Greek word allegoria, which means “speaking otherwise”. Allegory is a story either in verse or in prose with a double meaning: surface meaning—a story, and under-the-surface meaning—a hidden truth.
obtain pleasure, but pleasure which is assured through taking
account of reality, even though it is pleasure postponed and
diminished”.
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• Sigmund Freud discusses this idea, pleasure principle, and its limits in more details in his book, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, published in 1921. In his discussion of the opposition between Eros, the life instinct, and the Thanatos, the death instinct, he examines the role of the repetition compulsion caused by the pleasure principle and of the sexual instincts.
• allegorically: figuratively
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