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Contemporary Perspectives on the Freudian Death Drive provides a sustained discussion of the death drive from the perspective of different psychoanalytic traditions. Ever since Freud introduced the notion of the death drive, it has been the subject of intense debate in psychoanalysis and beyond.
Table des matières
Introduction: The death drive: A brief genealogy of a controversial concept V. BlümlPart I: Theory
Chapter 1: The struggle between good and evil: the concept of the death drive from a Kleinian perspective
H. Rössler-SchüleinChapter 2: Laplanche as a reader of "Beyond the Pleasure Principle"
F. FrühChapter 3: Unexpected Antecedents to the Concept of the Death Drive: A return to the beginnings
J. Wolff BernsteinPart II: Clinical aspects
Chapter 4: Is the death drive mute - or do we pretend to be deaf?
S. Zwettler-OtteChapter 5: Is the concept of death-drive clinically helpful for psychoanalysts?
F. LackingerPart III: Culture
Chapter 6: Vicissitudes of the Death Drive in Culture
E. SkaleChapter 7: In the Name of Janus: Do we Need a Dualistic Drive-theory?
A. RuhsPart IV: History
Chapter 8: The Drive that silences: The Death Drive and the Oral Tradition in Viennese Psychoanalysis
D. HuppertChapter 9: On the history of psychoanalysis in Vienna with special focus on the forced emigration of psychoanalysts in 1938
T. Aichhorn Chapter 10: Liselotte Frankl and Hans Herma. Two candidates of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society in 1938
N. PakeschChapter 11: Remembering Dr Otto Brief
T. Kunstreich
A propos de l'auteur
Victor Blüml is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (Vienna Psychoanalytic Society/IPA). He is Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy of the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. His main research interests include personality structure, psychotic phenomena, suicidality, and conceptual issues of psychoanalysis. He has published in numerous publications including psychiatric and psychoanalytic journals.
Liana Giorgi is a social and political scientist and psychoanalyst in private practice (Vienna Psychoanalytic Society/IPA). She is the author/editor of
Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere (Routledge 2011),
Democracy in the European Union (Routledge 2006), and
The Post-Socialist Media: What Power the West? (Avebury 1995). She is currently working on a book on the intellectual exchanges between psychoanalysis, social and political theory.
Daru Huppert is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Austria (Vienna Psychoanalytic Society/IPA); he has published numerous psychoanalytic articles on sleep, sexuality, disgust, and shame.
