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Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud | |
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Sigmund Freud, by Max Halberstadt, 1921 | |
| Born | Sigismund Schlomo Freud (1856-05-06)6 May 1856 Freiberg in Mähren, Moravia (now part of Czechia), Austrian Empire |
| Died | 23 September 1939(1939-09-23) (aged 83) London, England, UK |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Alma mater | University of Vienna |
| Known for | Psychoanalysis |
| Awards | Goethe Prize Foreign Member of the Royal Society (London)[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Neurology Psychotherapy Psychoanalysis |
| Institutions | University of Vienna |
| Influences | Aristotle, Brentano, Breuer, Charcot, Darwin, Dostoyevsky, Goethe, Haeckel, Hartmann, Jackson, Jacobsen, Kant, Mayer, Nietzsche, Plato, Schopenhauer, Shakespeare, Sophocles |
| Influenced | Eugen Bleuler, John Bowlby, Viktor Frankl, Anna Freud, Erich Fromm, Otto Gross, Karen Horney, Arthur Janov, Ernest Jones, Carl Jung, Melanie Klein, Jacques Lacan, Fritz Perls, Otto Rank, Wilhelm Reich |
Sigmund Freud (Moravia, 6 May 1856 – London, 23 September 1939) was an Austrianneurologist (a pers
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Death drive
Sigmund Freud
Freud introduced the concept of the death drive in Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920).
Here he established a fundamental opposition between life drives (eros), conceived of as a tendency towards cohesion and unity, and the death drives, which operate in the opposite direction, undoing connections and destroying things.
The concept of the death drive was one of the most controversial concepts introduced by Freud, and many of his disciples rejected it, but Freud continued to reaffirm the concept for the rest of his life.
Jacques Lacan
Psychoanalysis
Lacan follows Freud in reaffirming the concept of the death drive as central to psychoanalysis:
"To ignore the death instinct in his [Freud's] doctrine is to misunderstand that doctrine entirely."[1]
Nostalgia
In Lacan's first remarks on the death drive, in 1938, he describes it as a nostalgia for a lost harmony, a desire to return to the preoedipal fusion with the mother's breast, the loss of which is marked on the psyche in the weaning complex.[2]
Narcissism
In 1946
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Death drive
Concept from Freudian psychoanalytics
Not to be confused with Death Drive (album).
In classical Freudianpsychoanalytic theory, the death drive (German: Todestrieb) is the drive toward death and destruction, often expressed through behaviors such as aggression, repetition compulsion, and self-destructiveness.[1][2] It was originally proposed by Sabina Spielrein in her paper "Destruction as the Cause of Coming Into Being"[3][4] (Die Destruktion als Ursache des Werdens)[5] in 1912, which was then taken up by Sigmund Freud in 1920 in Beyond the Pleasure Principle. This concept has been translated as "opposition between the ego or death instincts and the sexual or life instincts".[6] In Beyond thePleasure Principle, Freud used the plural "death drives" (Todestriebe) much more frequently than the singular.[7]
The death drive opposes Eros, the tendency toward survival, propagation, sex, and other creative, life-producing drives. The death drive is sometimes referred to as Thanatos in p
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