After some years of study and observations, Freud has faced a force that impels the human being to crave the inorganic state, and called it “death drive”, but has not deepened his investigation; this has motivated our ...

In this research, we discuss happiness in psychoanalytic theory. Using as reference the Freud's work and the writings of Jean Laplanche, we try to establish a relationship between death drive and happiness, questioning - ...

The current paperwork intends to analyze the concept of drive in both first and second theories of drives according to the Freudian psychoanalysis and refers to the behavioral biology in order to initiate a debate about ...

Considering that Freudian reflection about culture belongs entirely to the field of psychoanalytic investigation, as do neurosis or the facts of normal individual psychism, this work intends to verify how such reflection ...

The present study intends a quest for an understanding about the death drives feasible roots in culture. Three steps were done for that. The first one, to retake the psychoanalysis history in its dawn ambit give us ...

The theory of drives is considered by Freud fundamental to psychoanalysis, however, he expresses his displeasure about the provisional and speculative character of his formulations, especially with regard to the concept ...