The Death DriveFreud's biological notion of a death drive is not well founded but a number of closely associated notions (including those of a drive, and of aggression turned against the self) are.doi:10.1353/aim.2014.0001Hopkins, JimThe Johns Hopkins University Pr...
To think of the death drive in relation to the entropy principle is, however, to run up against an immediate problem: a blind spot in Freud’s own thinking. This is, quite simply, that the death drive cannot help but work against itself, resisting its own goal. If, on the one hand,...
Define Death drive. Death drive synonyms, Death drive pronunciation, Death drive translation, English dictionary definition of Death drive. n. A primitive impulse for destruction, decay, and death, postulated by Sigmund Freud as coexisting with and oppos
Modern philosophy has come again to death, a main current of its tradition. Through the problem of death, philosophy and psychology are rejoining. Freud and Jung, Sartre and Heidegger, have placed death in the middle of their works. Most of Freud's followers rejected his metapsychology of dea...
The devastating consequences of capitalism suggest that a death drive is at work. Freud initially introduced the death drive hesitantly, but later admitted that he ‘couldn’t think beyond it’ as the idea of the death drive became increasingly central to his thought. Today, i... Show more ...
8Modernist Cultures of the Death DriveMelancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to rescue them.—Walter BenjaminThe classic theorization of melancholia portrays the melancholic as anessentially ...
This book takes the reader through the developments of Freud's speculative and controversial theory of the death drive, starting with Freud's drive theory, moving on to Klein's, Bion's and Lacan's key developments in the theory, before taking up the death drive in Baudrillard's notion of ...
Thanatos: The drive without a name: The development of the concept of the death drive in Freud's writings Studies the theme of aggression and the development of the concept of the death drive in the writings of Freud. Freud and his followers met with difficulties in trying to integrate the...
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