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==Sigmund Freud==
==="Beyond the Pleasure Principle"===
[[Sigmund Freud]] introduced the concept of the [[death drive]] in ''[[Beyond the Pleasure Principle]]'' (1920).
 
=====Life and Death Drives=====
In this work [[Freud]] established a fundamental opposition between [[death drive|life drive]]s (''[[eros]]''), conceived of as a tendency towards cohesion and unity, and the [[death drive]]s, which operate in the opposite direction, undoing connections and destroying things.
However, the [[death drive|life drive]]s and the [[death drive]]s are never found in a pure state, but always mixed/fused together in differing proportions.
 
=====Silent Death Drive=====
Indeed, [[Freud]] argued that were it not for this fusion with [[death drive|erotism]], the [[death drive]] would elude our perception, since in itself it is [[death drive|silent]].<ref>{{F}} ''[[Civilization and Its Discontents]]'', 1930a. [[SE]] XXI, 59.</ref>
 
=====Controversy=====
The concept of the [[death drive]] was one of the most controversial [[:category:concepts|concepts]] introduced by [[Freud]], and many of his disciples rejected it (regarding it as mere poetry or as an unjustifiable incursion into [[philosophy|metaphysics]]), but [[Freud]] continued to reaffirm the concept for the rest of his life.
 
Of the [[school|non-Lacanian]] [[school]]s of [[psychoanalytic theory]], only [[Kleinian psychoanalysis]] takes the concept seriously.
====Jacques Lacan====
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