Freud explained the two forces of Eros and Thanatos as supporting the preservation of life. Whether these forces are for survival, pleasure, or reproduction, they aid the individual in health and safety. The main characteristic for Eros, for example, is to stand against the despair and harsh ...
Although Freud initially explained all motivation in terms of the pleasure principle, he found himself increasingly unable to explain clinical phenomena such as repetition compulsion, sadism and masochism as simply a quest for gratification and pleasure. So on the heels of WWI and with the rise of...
expounded in The World as Will and Representation, describes a renunciation of the will to live that corresponds on many levels with Freud's Death Drive. Similarly, the life drive clearly parallels much of Nietzsche's concept of the Dionysian in The Birth...
Not only the life-drive is in them, but the death-drive as well. When Freud made this communication to an attentive world, he was under the impress of the death of a blooming daughter whom he lost after he had had to worry about the life of several of his nearest relatives, who had...
It is more than probable that the evil effects of the human aggressive drives, explained by Sigmund Freud as the results of a special death wish, simply derive from the fact that in prehistoric times intra-specific selection bred into man a measure of aggression drive for which in the social...
Sigmund Freud AKASigismund Schlomo Freud Born:6-May-1856 Birthplace:Freiberg, Moravia[1] Died:23-Sep-1939 Location of death:London, England Cause of death:Euthanasia[2] Remains:Cremated,Golders Green Crematorium, London, England Gender:Male ...
Freud associated aggression with the id, calling it the ‘death instinct’ or Thanatos. This represents an innate drive towards destruction, aggression, and conflict. For instance, if you feel irritated, insulted, or frustrated, then you might feel a sudden impulse to react aggressively. This is...
Freud told Andreas-Salomé that "Anna gives me enough worries: how she will bear the lonely life" after my death and doubted "whether I can drive her libido from the hiding place into which it has crawled." Freud speculated that Anna might find someone after his death but added that "she...
When the same person sees a beautiful car drive by, the ego mediates between the id and the super ego and decides to save up to buy the car rather than take it. If that means this person must save up for another ten years, that’s the sacrifice that must be made to fulfil the des...
ideas are repressed, but remain in the mind, removed from consciousness yet operative, then reappear in consciousness under certain circumstances. The postulate was based upon the investigation of cases of traumatic hysteria, which revealed cases where the behavior of patients could not be explained ...