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you know who talks a lot about this kind of thing is Herbert Marcuse. Eros and Thanatos, Love and Death as the primary motivators of the human experience. The book was Eros and Civilization, i think. he's got the heideggerian "living authentically" theme as well, he says that the desire to create and the desire to destroy are what essentially drive us to the very point of recognizing our own mortality, frailty, and humanity in those emotions.
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