Swimming takes third at NESCACs

“The men just swam out of their minds this weekend,” said Coach Nick Nichols. Starting off the meet in the 200-yard freestyle relay, the ‘A’ team of Chuck Clinton ’05, Dan Morash ’04, Mike Pohorylo ’04 and Pat Kennedy ’03 finished in fifth. Amherst got its first NESCAC victory of the meet in the 500-yard freestyle courtesy of tri-captain Rob Winograd ’02, who set a new pool, meet, NESCAC and school record, in addition to qualifying for Nationals with a dazzling time of 4:30.16. He was followed

Lear Discusses Freud's Death Drive

Lear began the speech with an explanation that Freud’s death drive is an attempt to compensate for the absence of a good psychoanalytical theory of aggression. “Freud hit a trauma himself,” Lear said. “The death-drive is a reaction to that trauma.” According to Lear, Freud’s death-drive concept is based on three different phenomena coming together as one: the mind’s inclination to maintain psychological homeostasis, engage in compulsive repetition and deflect our inner entropic tendencies outw