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Document Details : Title: De doodsdrift en het doodse aan het ik Subtitle: De claustrofobische metafysica van Freud Author(s): MOYAERT, Paul Journal: Tijdschrift voor Filosofie Volume: 75 Issue: 3 Date: 2013 Pages: 487-523 DOI: 10.2143/TVF.75.3.2990794 Abstract : In Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Freud elaborates a critique of a vitalistic notion of the drives. Drives are not only a source of excitation, but forces that resist change. Freud gives a remarkable name to the conservative tendencies of the drives, viz. the death drive. I intend to show that Freud was led to develop a non-vitalistic conception of drives by means of a study of different repetition phenomena. I focus on one particular claim of Freud where he suggests that the ego-drives are the 'myrmidons of death'. To clarify this claim I consider a remark he makes on the viscosity of the drives and melancholia in his short essay ‘On Transience’. |
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