What is the “Death Drive”? In this short video I attempt to provide a simple introduction to Freud’s theory of the “Todestrieb.”
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THE PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COURT SAID THERE IS NO GENOCIDE.
AND THERE IS ZERO EVIDENCE OF STARVATION.
… Dear Julian: Despite what leftists have managed to convince you of:
YOU ABSOLUTELY MAY NOT DO "SIT-INS" AT EVENTS YOU ARE NOT INVITED TO.
THE LEFT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR SUPPRESSING FREE EXCHANGE OF IDEAS AND OPEN DISCUSSION.
YOU MAY NOT DO "SIT-INS" AT EVENTS YOU ARE NOT INVITED TO.
JUST LIKE YOU BLOCKED ME, JULIAN- ITS THE LEFTISTS WHO ARE AGAINST FREE EXCHANGE OF IDEAS AND OPEN DISCUSSION.
You have exemplified the hypocrisy VERY well by blocking me, baby boy.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COURT SAID THERE IS NO GENOCIDE.
THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF STARVATION.
I continue to struggle with the cause of enjoyment from repetition. Is it because we become subject to what we are repeating, experiencing a type of "death" and thus we come to enjoy it? Or am I misunderstanding something fundementally?
Thanks Julian, very clear.
You can also find a, perhaps, more speculative analysis of Freud’s death drive in Zupančič’s ‘What Is Sex?’ where she also covers its ontological implications (particularly concerning Lacan and Deleuze) and its relation to/in sexual drives (or as she calls it: “sexuality as such”).
you are an excellent lecturer, julian 🙏🔥
I mixed this idea up with the one where all of our actions are done to destract from our eventual deaths.
Thats terror management theory is think.
i love how the care for your hair decreases as a metaphore of your desdend to madness throug philosophy
Hello Julian – a month or so back you made a great lecture contrasting the neurotic vs pervert subject. I wonder since you sometimes mention the hysteric and psychotic person, how do they fit into the equation? are they distinct from perversion or neuroticism, or are they components of them? maybe a short video on it will be great – thank you
The world is finite, according to Nietzsche, and so if one spends too much time working on Zizek, Hegel, Lacan, where is the room left for the Free Spirit?
Julian, I'm wondering if you have a specific reference where Freud talks about Eros as Thanatos? I always thought that Freud maintained the dichotomy between the Life and Death drive, and that Lacan (and the Lacanians) twisted Freud to fit his own theories. Even in his letter to Einstein in 1932 he maintains the dichotomy. I think we should be careful in following Lacan's interpretations and believing them to be Freud's own. Thank you by the way for your work, I appreciate it enormously!
For those interested in Freud's concept from the viewpoint of the recent neuroscience, I recommend Mark Solms's 2021 paper 'Revision of Drive Theory'. They managed to identify seven drives in contrast to Freud's two, all of which were self-preservative.
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Rousseau puts it perfectly in his speech about the origin and bases of inequality amongst man:
"Nature commands every animal, and the beast obeys.
Man experiences the same impression, but he recognizes himself free to acquiesce, or to resist; and it is above all in the awareness of this freedom that is shown
the spirituality of his soul: because physics explains in some way the
mechanism of the senses and the formation of ideas; but in the power of will
or rather to choose, and in the feeling of this power we find only
purely spiritual acts, of which nothing is explained by the laws of mechanics"
I would also add this passage which I think completes the other one wonderfully, "when the difficulties which surround all these questions would leave some room for dispute on this difference between man and animal, there is a
another very specific quality which distinguishes them, and on which there can be no contestation is the faculty of perfecting oneself; faculty which, with the help of circumstances, successively develops all the others, and resides among us
both in the species and in the individual, whereas an animal is, after a few months, what it will be all its life, and its species, after a thousand years, this
that it was the first year of these thousand years."
“Pussy is so good men will die for it”
Paraphrase Patrice O’neal
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Jean Laplanche is an author that may be of interest, further complicating the psychoanalytic concept of drive generally (i.e. Freud and the Sexual). Great comprehensive little discussion. Thanks!