The “beyond” that comes from the past: evolutionism and the regressive and pathological character of drive
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Psychoanalysis, Ernst Haeckel, Sigmund Freud, Georges Canguilhem, Evolutionary biology, PathologyAbstract
This article reflects on the influence that evolutionary biology had on Sigmund Freud regarding the theory of drives and the notion of pathology that accompanies it. Also, notably regarding its regressive tendencies, as presented in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, a publication with outstanding evolutionary references, especially on the phylogenetic understanding of the human species, that is, the recapitulation theory of Ernst Haeckel, a theory linked to clinical and cultural phenomena. Supported by Georges Canguilhem, we observe that the same Biology fulfills a normative function in the qualification of human manifestations. Thus, we show that the resource to it served as support for Freud to establish a psychoanalytic conception of subject likewise normative, that is, endowed with a regressive and pathological psyche in its nature, whose biological tendency makes it repeat past behaviors. This approach represents a theoretical option to the detriment of rupture and variation as a guide of its history, as well as the history of the human species.Downloads
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