Life-Instinct, Labor

A problem with many Vitalist principles, e. g. the Will to Live, is that Living is already entailed in Willing.  But, the problem is more than a merely verbal redundancy; rather, the concept that the formulations typically represent distorts what is concretely a continuum, into a fragmented teleological concatenation, that usually privileges the final stage of the continuum.  Now, Freud's Eros, defined as "life-instinct", similarly distorts Life, since the 'instinct' is already alive.  Hence, one reason why Marcuse has difficulty integrating non-repressive Labor into a society based on Eros is that such Labor is non-alienated, and, as non-alienated, consists in a continuum in which its fruits are the final stage--which cannot be accomodated by a Vitalist principle that inherently ruptures such a continuum into a 'means' and an 'end'.