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Title Contemporary perspectives on the Freudian death drive : in theory, clinical practice and culture / edited by Victor Blüml, Liana Giorgi and Daru Huppert
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019

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Series The international psychoanalytic ideas and applications series
International psychoanalytic ideas and applications series
Contents Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION The death drive: a brief genealogy of a controversial concept; PART I THEORY; CHAPTER 1 The struggle between good and evil: the concept of the death drive from a Kleinian perspective; CHAPTER 2 Laplanche as a reader of "Beyond the Pleasure Principle"; CHAPTER 3 Unexpected antecedents to the concept of the death drive: a return to the beginnings; PART II CLINICAL ASPECTS; CHAPTER 4 Is the death drive mute -- or do we pretend to be deaf?
CHAPTER 5 Is the concept of death drive clinically helpful for psychoanalysts?PART III CULTURE; CHAPTER 6 Vicissitudes of the death drive in culture; CHAPTER 7 In the name of Janus: do we need a dualistic drive theory?; PART IV HISTORY; CHAPTER 8 The drive that silences: the death drive and the oral transmission in Viennese psychoanalysis; CHAPTER 9 On the history of psychoanalysis in Vienna, with special focus on the forced emigration of psychoanalysts in 1938; CHAPTER 10 Liselotte Frankl and Hans Herma: two candidates of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society in 1938
Summary 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. The death drive is arguably the most unsettling psychoanalytic concept. What this concept points to is more unsettling still. It uniquely illuminates the forces of destruction and dissolution at work in individuals as well as in society. This book first introduces Freud's use of the term, tracing the debates and developments his ideas have led to. The subsequent essays by leading Viennese psychoanalysts demonstrate the power of the death drive to illuminate psychoanalytic theory, clinical practice, and the study of culture. Since this book originally arose from a conference in Vienna, its final segment is dedicated to the forced exile of the early Viennese psychoanalysts due to the Nazi threat. Due to its wide scope and the many perspectives it offers, this book is a tribute to the disturbing relevance of the death drive today. Contemporary Perspectives on the Freudian Death Drive is of special interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, social and cultural scientists, as well as anyone intending to understand the sources and vicissitudes of human destructiveness
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Victor Blèuml 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
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Subject Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
SUBJECT Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 fast
Subject Death instinct.
Death -- Psychological aspects.
Impulse.
Psychoanalysis.
Attitude to Death
Aggression -- psychology
Drive
Psychoanalytic Theory
Psychoanalysis
psychoanalysis.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Reference.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Movements -- Psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalysis
Impulse
Death -- Psychological aspects
Death instinct
Form Electronic book
Author Blüml, Victor, 1982- editor.
Giorgi, Liana, editor
Huppert, Daru, 1973- editor.
LC no. 2018053765
ISBN 0429054041
9780429620492
0429620497
9780429618345
0429618344
9780429622649
0429622643
9780429054044