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- ISBN 10: 0429620497
- ISBN 13: 9780429620492
- Author: Victor Bluml
Contemporary Perspectives on the Freudian Death Drive provides a sustained discussion of the death drive from the perspective of different psychoanalytic traditions. Ever since Freud introduced the notion of the death drive, it has been the subject of intense debate in psychoanalysis and beyond. The death drive is arguably the most unsettling psychoanalytic concept. What this concept points to is more unsettling still. It uniquely illuminates the forces of destruction and dissolution at work in individuals as well as in society. This book first introduces Freud’s use of the term, tracing the debates and developments his ideas have led to. The subsequent essays by leading Viennese psychoanalysts demonstrate the power of the death drive to illuminate psychoanalytic theory, clinical practice, and the study of culture. Since this book originally arose from a conference in Vienna, its final segment is dedicated to the forced exile of the early Viennese psychoanalysts due to the Nazi threat. Due to its wide scope and the many perspectives it offers, this book is a tribute to the disturbing relevance of the death drive today. Contemporary Perspectives on the Freudian Death Drive is of special interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, social and cultural scientists, as well as anyone intending to understand the sources and vicissitudes of human destructiveness.
Table of contents:
PART I THEORY
CHAPTER 1 The struggle between good and evil: the concept of the death drive from a Kleinian perspective
CHAPTER 2 Laplanche as a reader of “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”
CHAPTER 3 Unexpected antecedents to the concept of the death drive: a return to the beginnings
PART II CLINICAL ASPECTS
CHAPTER 4 Is the death drive mute – or do we pretend to be deaf?
CHAPTER 5 Is the concept of death drive clinically helpful for psychoanalysts?
PART III CULTURE
CHAPTER 6 Vicissitudes of the death drive in culture
CHAPTER 7 In the name of Janus: do we need a dualistic drive theory?
PART IV HISTORY
CHAPTER 8 The drive that silences: the death drive and the oral transmission in Viennese psychoanalysis
CHAPTER 9 On the history of psychoanalysis in Vienna, with special focus on the forced emigration of psychoanalysts in 1938
CHAPTER 10 Liselotte Frankl and Hans Herma: two candidates of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society in 1938
CHAPTER 11 Remembering Dr Otto Brief
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