CTA Tattler

Beyond the CTA Pleasure Principle

Paperbook found standing on end in the window heat vent:

Sigmund Freud's "Beyond the Pleasure Principle."

From Everything2.com: "For Sigmund Freud, instincts are the principal motivating forces in the mental realm, and our instincts can be grouped into two broad generic categories, Eros (the life instinct), which covers all of the self preserving sex stuff, and Thanatos (the death instinct), which covers all the aggressive, self destructive, cruel instincts."

It seems like the CTA also can be thusly categorized. You've got the Eros/life instincts manfested in the Hobo corner. And you have Thanatos/death instincts in the CTA suicides and other cruel, aggressive behaviors.