24,656
edits
Changes
no edit summary
{{Top}}pulsion de mort]]''; [[German]]: ''[[Todestrieb{{Bottom}}
[[Sigmund Freud|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.
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=====
