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In ''[[Beyond the Pleasure Principle]] [[Freud]] revised his earlier [[theory ]] of the [[drives]] which asserted the primacy of the [[pleasure principle]], that is to say, the theory that our primary motivation as [[human ]] beings is the fulfilment of [[pleasure]] or [[desire]].

[[Clinical ]] [[experience ]] revealed to Freud that [[subjects ]] compulsively repeated painful or [[traumatic ]] experiences in direct [[contradiction ]] to the primacy of the pleasure [[principle]].

Freud called this beyond of pleasure 'the [[death ]] [[drive]]' and suggested that the primary [[purpose ]] of [[life ]] is to find the correct path to death.

[[Lacan ]] followed Freud in associating the [[death drive ]] with [[repetition]], but he argued that we are not driven towards death but by death.

It is [[loss ]] that drives life through desire but, human beings will settle for any experience, however painful, rather than fall out of the familiarity of the [[symbolic ]] into the [[trauma ]] and [[void ]] of the [[real]].