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More specifically, they enable the mortal psyche to live with, to respond to insoluble provocations and contradictions such as those posed by incest-taboos, by our ambiguous relations to the natural and animal environment, or by the ineluctability of death.
Más concretamente, permiten a la psique humana acomodarse y responder a provocaciones y contradicciones irresolubles como las que crea el tabú del incesto, nuestras ambiguas relaciones con el entorno natural y animal o la ineluctabilidad de la muerte.
I went back to work, what else could I do, but indifferently now, discouraged by a sense of ineluctability: that swarming became more repellent to me the more it seemed a demand for an active and intense life that knows no obstacle but, rather, at every obstruction, unsheathes a stubborn, cruel will to do as it wishes.
Me puse a trabajar de nuevo, no podía hacer otra cosa; pero ahora lo hacía de mala gana, abatida por una impresión de ineluctabilidad, tanto más desagradable para mí cuanto aquella invasión de hormigas me parecía un impulso de vida activa e intensa que no conoce obstáculos y que manifiesta, ante cada traba, una tenaz y cruel voluntad de seguir su camino.
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