Vol 19 (1/2) 2001
An Introduction to the Introduction of 1914. About the Narcissism of Sigmund Freud – Julien Quackelbeen
On the Death Drive: From Compulsion to Repeat to the Reference to The Thing – Mark Adriaensen
The Death Drive, regarding the Real – Dieter De Grave
Manifestations of Thanatos, when the Demand for Love elicits a Negative Response – Huguette Raes
“Why return?”, On the Notion of the “Wiederkehr” and its Implications for the Clinic of Toxicomania – Veroniek Knockaert
‘Vergänglichkeit’ and Death: a Comment on some Freudian Texts – Hubert Van Hoorde
Suicide and Death-Drives – Christian Demoulin
On Structure and Function in Freud’s Metapsychology: an Historic Approach – David Van Bunder
On Structure and Function in Freud’s Metapsychology: an Historic Approach
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...
Suicide and Death-Drives
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...
‘Vergänglichkeit’ and Death: a Comment on some Freudian Texts
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...
“Why return?”, On the Notion of the “Wiederkehr” and its Implications for the Clinic of Toxicomania
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...
Manifestations of Thanatos, when the Demand for Love elicits a Negative Response
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...
The Death Drive, regarding the Real
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...
On the Death Drive: From Compulsion to Repeat to the Reference to The Thing
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...
An Introduction to the Introduction of 1914. About the Narcissism of Sigmund Freud
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...