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[[Sigmund Freud|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. 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>

=====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.