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==Sigmund Freud==
[[Sigmund Freud]] introduced the concept of the [[death drive]] in ''[[Beyond the Pleasure Principle]]'' (1920).
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.
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.
====Jacques Lacan====