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They give rise to and may be the product of conflict. The strongest love, for example, will always be mixed with aggression. When his sister asks Tony Soprano, “Where does your hate for me come from?,” we should know that it comes from the same place as his love for her. Love cannot be satisfied without aggression, and intense antipathy is always bound up with desire. Those elements can no more be separated from one another than nourishment can be separated from digestion. There is no possibility of full, sustained satisfaction in the Freudian model because the desires one aims to gratify are contradictory - http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2014/09/22/why-freud-still-haunts-us/