Nr. 43/44 (2001)

Een introductie op de introductie van 1914.
Over het narcisme van Sigmund Freud [abstract]
Julien Quackelbeen

Over de doodspulsie:
van herhalingsdwang tot referentie naar het Ding [abstract]
Mark Adriaensen

De doodsdrift ten aanzien van het reële [abstract]
Dieter De Grave

Manifestaties van Thanatos,
als de vraag naar liefde te negatief beantwoord wordt [abstract]
Huguette Raes

"Waarom terugkeren?"
Over de notie van de "Wiederkehr" in het XIde seminarie
en haar implicaties voor de kliniek van de toxicomanie [abstract]
Veroniek Knockaert

Vergankelijkheid en dood:
enkele kanttekeningen bij teksten van Sigmund Freud [abstract]
Hubert Van Hoorde

Suicide et pulsion de mort [abstract] [text]
Christian Demoulin

Over structuur en functie binnen Freuds metapsychologie.
Een historische benadering [abstract]
David Van Bunder

ARCHIEFTEKST

De destructie als oorzaak van het worden [text]
Sabina Spielrein

An Introduction to the Introduction of 1914. About the Narcissism of Sigmund Freud

Julien Quackelbeen

This article is an introduction to Freud's article on Narcissism. It attempts to bring the reader to revisit Freud's text in a new way. Apart from the requisite amount of narcissism that each psychic system needs, we know all to well the places where that amount is exceeded. It is thought too easily that free association is the way to treat excesses of narcissism. Will a mere promotion of free association be sufficient or should the analyst be more exigent in relation to narcissism?

Key words: Narcissism, Desire of the Analyst, Treatment of Narcissism

On the Death Drive: From Compulsion to Repeat to the Reference to The Thing

Mark Adriaensen

This article broadly discusses the concept of the death drive. It demonstrates how a biological frame of reference is inadequate for interpreting the (sexual) drive. The notion of the compulsion to repeat helps us to understand why Freud was forced to introduce the death drive and, at the same time, to acknowledge it as being the underlying determining principle of every drive. Making use of the notions das Ding and objet a we show how Lacan's reading of this controversial concept of the death drive precludes an organic interpretation. Finally, two clinical fragments illustrate how the activity of the death drive may reveal itself.

Key words: Death instinct, Compulsion to Repeat, das Ding, object a.

The Death Drive, regarding the Real

Dieter De Grave

Where do we find the link between the Freudian death drive and the Lacanian Real? In this theoretical enquiry we trace the relationship between the growing pains of the death drive and the Real in the writings of Freud and Lacan. With Freud we examine the place of the death drive in a theoretical framework. This search inevitably leads to the constitution of the pleasure experience which is very hard to understand in relation to the death drive. We run into the trauma, which is the pleasurable encounter with the Real. Next we concentrate on the Lacanian elaboration of the death drive in the coming into being of the subject. Through this, we stumble upon the Real as that enigmatic category which escapes any elaboration. This Real is then examined in combination with the death drive in an attempt to formulate their relationship. The Borromean Knot of the Real-Symbolic-Imaginary in masochism concludes this paper.

Key words: Death drive, Eros, Pleasure principle, Trauma, Phallic and Other Enjoyment, Narcissism, Masochism.

Manifestations of Thanatos, when the Demand for Love elicits a Negative Response

Huguette Raes

Based on clinical experience, this article examines some manifestations of the death-drive in relation to Lacan’s hypothesis that unwanted children are often prone to commit suicide. When the subject’s demand for love is repeatedly met with a negative response, the result is often a breaking-up of the death-drive. Different manifestations of the death-drive can be a response to the old death-wishes of the mother.

Key words: Death-drive, Suicidal Tendencies, Psychosomatic.

"Why return?", On the Notion of the "Wiederkehr" and its Implications for the Clinic of Toxicomania

Veroniek Knockaert

This paper reviews the Freudian notion of the "Wiederkehr", or "return", as elaborated in Lacan's Seminar on The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis. Futhermore, the author describes how the possibility of a return is implied in the psychoanalytic intervention strategy on a psychiatric ward for crisis intervention with drug addicts.

Key words: Wiederkehr, Institution, Toxicomania, Psychoanalysis, Crisis.

'Vergänglichkeit' and Death: a Comment on some Freudian Texts

Hubert Van Hoorde

This article addresses the problem of the impossibility of a psychoanalytic Weltanschauung through a reading of Freud's texts on war, death and transience and with reference to Freud's membership of the B'nai B'rith. The link with clinical material leads the author to conclude that Freud's insight into human nature, while enthusiastic, lacks optimism.

Key words: Psychoanalysis, Vergänglichkeit, Transitoriness, Death, War, Weltanschauung, B'nai B'rith.

Suicide and Death-Drives

Christian Demoulin

The death-drive runs as a red thread through a reading of Lacan. Starting from a clinic of suicide, Lacan proposes a theory whih is based on a split that is present at every level of the human structure: the real (biological), the imaginary (narcissistic), the symbolic (linguistic), up to and including the fantasma (primordial masochism). We attempt to draw a lesson from this concerning the cure and the problematic field of mental health.

Key words: Lacan, Suicide, Death-Drives, Real, Imaginary, Symbolic, Fantasy.

On Structure and Function in Freud's Metapsychology: an Historic Approach

David Van Bunder

This paper begins by outlining the debate at the beginning of the twentieth century between structuralist and functionalist psychology. We examine some of the consequences of emphasizing either the functional or the structural properties of the mental apparatus. The functional explanation finds its most extreme example in Watson's behaviorism. Then we examine Freud's notion of the mental apparatus. We find that in the metapsychology of 1915 Freud gives priority to a structural explanation of mental phenomena, while in the metapsychology of 1923 he constructs the mental apparatus as being divided into functional units.

Key words: Structure, Function, Structuralism, Functionalism, Behaviorism, Psychoanalysis, Titchener, Angell, Watson, Freud.