Death Drive, Repetition Compulsion, and Primary Masochism

This article takes up the 1920 Freudian text, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, to think about how psychic life is described in terms of drive imbrication or the connection between libido and the death drive and to suggest that the compulsion to repeat pain and displeasure can be thought of as an atte...

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Main Author: Carolina de Souza Noto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UNICApress 2024-11-01
Series:Critical Hermeneutics
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Online Access:https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/ecch/article/view/6164