The driving dualism and its demands

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https://doi.org/10.5902/2179378647914

Keywords:

Metapsychology, Drives, Dualism, Libido, Destructiveness, Compulsion to Repeat, Nirvana principle, Pleasure principle

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to explain how the requirement to maintain the dualism of drives in Freud's metapsychology is closely linked to the concept of drive as organic elasticity or as the expression of the inertia of organic life.

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Author Biography

Oswaldo Giacoia Júnior, State University of Campinas, Campinas, SP

Professor of Philosophy at State University of Campinas, Campinas, SP

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Published

2020-08-28

How to Cite

Giacoia Júnior, O. (2020). The driving dualism and its demands. Voluntas: International Journal of Philosophy, 11(2), 6–22. https://doi.org/10.5902/2179378647914

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Vol. 11 No. 2 (2020): Dossier Life drives, death drives + Schopenhauerian Studies

Section

Life drives, Death drives

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