Shelley and the death drive: Romanticism, politics, psychoanalysis
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DOI: 10.1080/0950236x.2020.1733065
Abstract: ABSTRACT Psychoanalysis has strong roots in Romanticism, and Percy Bysshe Shelley’s writings have often been thought to prefigure aspects of psychoanalytic theory. This essay explores affinities between Shelley’s poetry and one particular concept: the ‘death… read more here.
Keywords: metapsychology; psychoanalysis; politics psychoanalysis; death drive ... See more keywords
Cold Theory, Cruel Theater: Staging the Death Drive with Lee Edelman and Hedda Gabler
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DOI: 10.1086/694127
Abstract: The death drive is nobody’s image. As readers of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan know, the drive—a structuring (and destructuring) principle of the psyche—is not to be conflated with images or representations of death; it… read more here.
Keywords: death drive; death; theory cruel; drive ... See more keywords
“Death drive” scientifically reconsidered: Not a drive but a collection of trauma-induced auto-addictive diseases
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.941328
Abstract: Over the last 102 years, a lot of discussion was being held about the psychoanalytic conception of the “death drive,” but still with inconclusive results. In this paper, we start with a brief review of… read more here.
Keywords: scientifically reconsidered; drive scientifically; reconsidered drive; death drive ... See more keywords