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Taking as a starting point the Freudian concept of death drive and the questions raised to it by Wilhelm Reich, several elements of psychoanalytic theory are examined under the focus of biological knowledge. Among the themes approached are the pleasure principle, aggression, human nature, the concept of drive and the relation between mind and body, the property or impropriety of making such connection between psychoanalysis and biology, among others. For those who judge valid the dialogue between these two fields, the discussion points to reformulation paths of several aspects of psychoanalytic theory, adapting it to the advance of knowledge in the areas of neurobiology, primatology, ethology, evolutionary psychology and other branches of biology.
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Medical Doctor graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of USP. Director of the Brazilian Institute of Biodynamic Psychology. Body psychotherapist since 1984. Master in Medicine USP 1988. Doctorate in Psychology USP 2005. Author of several books and articles in the field of mental health. Technical Reviewer of the Translation of 5 works by Wilhelm Reich.
