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In the [[seminar]] of 1954-5, for example, he argues that the [[death drive]] is simply the fundamental tendency of the [[symbolic order]] to produce [[repetition]]:
<blockquote>"The [[death drive|death instinct]] is only the mask of the [[symbolic order]]."<ref>{{S2}} p. 326</ref></blockquote>
=====Biological Instincts=====
[[Freud]] opposed the [[death drive]] to the [[sexual]] [[drive]]s, but now [[Lacan]] argues that the [[death drive]] is not a separate [[drive]], but is in fact an aspect of every [[drive]].
<blockquote>"The distinction between the [[death drive|life drive]] and the [[death drive]] is - true in as much as it manifests two aspects of the [[drive]]."<ref>{{S11}} p. 257</ref></blockquote>
Hence [[Lacan]] writes that "every [[drive]] is virtually a [[death drive]]" because:
