Beschreibung:
Rossella Valdrè is a psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and Training Analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society and International Psychoanalytical Association. She is the author of Psychoanalytic Reflections on The Freudian Death Drive: In Theory, the Clinic, and Art (2018), Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women and Power in Contemporary Fiction: Malice, the Victim and the Couple (2017) and On Sublimation: A Path to the Destiny of Desire, Theory, and Treatment (2014).
This comprehensive yet accessible book analyses the clinical and historical experiences that led to the radical, complex and fundamental psychoanalytic concept of the death drive.
Introduction 1.The death drive in Freudian thought: theory and historical context 2.Death wish or death of desire? 3.A controversial concept: the death drive in the post-Freud era 4.How is the 'silent' drive expressed? Masochism's dangerous derivative 5.Clinical and artistic examples of the death drive in the individual and in social groups 6.The death drive and sublimation: a dangerous relationship 7.The reason for a fundamental concept on human nature 8.Future developments: the contribution of neuroscience Conclusions