Notes on the status of death in the Freudian conception of life
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Freud, Drive, Life, Death, PsychoanalysisAbstract
This article aims to comprehend the status of death within the conception of life that one can infer from Freudian theorizations. To this end, we resorted to a comparative reading between two fundamental moments of Freud’s oeuvre: the metapsychological project (with emphasis on the 1915 article on drives) and the publication, in 1920, of Beyond the pleasure principle. We verified that, in general, the most essential characteristics with which life is depicted remain the same in both of these moments; what changed was the status conferred to death in this conception, which from a logical and external limit became life’s origin and finality. We noted thereto that the incorporation of death into the bosom of life did not arise in a vacuum, but rather that Freud has accomplished it as he dwelled on hypotheses that were present in his thinking even before 1920, in a process of continuous theoretical re-elaboration.
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