The bodily instinct to return to == ''Pulsion de mort'' ==In ''Beyond the state Pleasure Principle'' (1920) Freud established a fundamental opposited between life and drives (eros), conceived of quiescence that preceded our birthas a tendency towards cohesion and unity, and the death drives, which operate in the opposite direction, undoing connections and destroying things. The However the life drives and the death drivedrives are never found in a pure state, but always mixed/fused together in differing proportions. Indeed, according to Freud's later writingsargued that were it not for this fusuion with rotism, explains why humans are drawn to repeat painful or traumatic events (even though such repetition appears to contradict the death drive would elude our instinct to seek pleasure)perception, since in itself it is silent.<ref>(Beyond the Pleasure PrincipleFreud 1930a: Se XXI, "The Uncanny")120</ref> Through such a compulsion to repeat, the human subject attempts to "bind" the trauma, thus allowing the subject to return to a state of quiescence.
== [[Kid A In Alphabet Land]] ==The concept of the death drive was one of the most controversial concepts introduced by Freud, and many of his disciplies rejected it, but Freud continued to reaffirm the concept for the rest of his life.
Lacan follows Freud in reaffirming the concept of the death drive as central to psychoanalysis. "To ignore the death instinct in his [[Image:Kida_dFreud's] doctrine is to misunderstand that doctrine entirely.gif |right|frame]]'''Kid A In Alphabet Land Duels Another Dastardly Desire - The Demonic Death Drive!'''<ref> e 310</ref>
You Break With The Cycle Of Birth, Death And Re-Birth, In Favor Of A Fantasy Of Radical AnnihilationLacan's first remarks on the death drive, To Create A New Order Ex Nihilio! You Call Yourself Thanatosin 1938, But You Are Desire In Its Purest Formhe describes it as a nostalgia for a lost harmony, Eros Deformed And Masked! Take This Suicide Solutiona desire to return to the preoedipal fusion with the mother's breast, Death Drive![[Category:Kid A In Alphabet Land]]the loss of which is marked on the psyche in the weaning complex.
In 1946 he links the death drive to the suicidal tendency of narcissism.
== References ==However when Lacan begins to develop his concept of the three orders, in the 1950s, he does not situate the death drive in the imaginary but in the symbolic.He argues that th death drive is simply the fundamental tendency of the symbolic order to produce [[repetition]]. "the death instinct is only the mask of the symbolic order."<ref>s2 326</ref> This shift also marks a difference with Freud, for whom the death drive was closely bound up with biiology, representing the fundamental tendency of every living thing to return to an inorganic state. by situating the death drive firmly in the symbolic Lacan articulates it with cultural rather than nature; he states that the death drive "is not a question of biology," and must be distinguished from the biological instinct to return to the inanimate.<ref>E 102; s7 211-12<references/ref> Another difference between Lacan's concept of the death drive and Freud's emerges in 1964. Freud opposed the death drive to the sexual drives, but now Lacan argues that the death drive is not a separate drive, but is in fact an aspect of every drive.Hence Lacan writes that "every drive is virutally a death drive" because every drive pursures its own extinction, involves the subject in repetition, and constitutes an attempt to go beyond the pleasure principle, to the realm of excss ''jouissance'' where enjoyment is experienced as suffering.
