Total war
In principle, this paper presents critics of Freud's concept of death drive and deals with the consequences of its drawing in the theoretical plane. Namely, the death drive is, besides the original pleasure principle, imported into the selfmediation dialectic of subjectivity. By that, as if a s...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Faculty of Philosophy, Kosovska Mitrovica
2007-01-01
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| Series: | Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini |
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| Online Access: | http://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0354-3293/2007/0354-32930737345B.pdf |
| Summary: | In principle, this paper presents critics of Freud's concept of death drive and deals with the consequences of its drawing in the theoretical plane. Namely, the death drive is, besides the original pleasure principle, imported into the selfmediation dialectic of subjectivity. By that, as if a scientific foundation and justification had been given to one of the central tendencies in Western European thought: to the idea of original opposition or eternal war. In our time, violence has entered widely into theoretical reality, which is best witnessed by Derida's thought. Nevertheless, the concept of death drive presents only one of the possible lines of the development of psychoanalysis, the line which is fully avoided in papers and praxis of one different psychoanalyst - very much used but not enough acknowledged - Wilhelm Reich. Reich, namely, succeeded in explanation of masochism problem (as one of the main motives for presenting of death drive) by inversion of the pleasure principle, and such interpretation gave results in therapy while the concept of death drive had shown itself apsolutely fruitless (unproductive) in that field. In that sense, one could say that it is the matter of different ethoi. |
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| ISSN: | 0354-3293 2217-8082 |