The conservative nature of sexual drives: a look beyond the binding aim of Eros
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https://doi.org/10.5902/2179378647117Keywords:
Life drives, Sexual drives, Conservative nature, BindingAbstract
In 1920, Freud explains that the drives have a conservative nature, since they tend to return to previous states, which is sometimes seen as a redefinition of the concept of drive in his theory. If this is a peaceful point in the field of death drives, for life drives and its aim of binding living substance in ever larger units, it is a reason for hesitation, to the point that the psychoanalyst even denies the possibility that Eros is conservative. This article aims to analyze this apparent difficulty and show that sexual drives, belonging to the group of life drives, have always been conservative for Freud. Thus, it intends to question whether there is properly a redefinition of the notion of drive and raise a deeper problem - the fact that sexual drives crave to return to less bound states of libidinal life and, thus, bump into the aim of Eros.
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