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Freud’s Drive: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film

Part of the Language, Discourse, Society Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230583047

ISBN: 978-1-349-35720-8

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Sep 14, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction: Death @ Work

de Lauretis, Teresa

Pages: 1 –19

[‘La mort au travail.’ This phrase of Jean Cocteau has been with me since I first encountered it, its unnerving figure working its way in my thoughts and meandering through the scattered reflections offered here by way of introduction. In 1970, speaking of cinema, Jean-Marie Straub glossed it to...
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Chapter 2Basic Instincts: An Illustrated Guide to Freud’s Theory of Drives

de Lauretis, Teresa

Pages: 20 –38

[The purpose of this chapter is to give readers not conversant with Freudian theory a brief overview, in outline form and ‘illustrated’ by reference to popular films, of Freud’s concept of drive and the major changes it underwent during the course of his life’s work. As the unconscious is the...
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Chapter 3The Stubborn Drive: Foucault, Freud, Fanon

de Lauretis, Teresa

Pages: 39 –57

[The obsessive thematization of sexuality and sexual identity in the late 1980s and 1990s, in particular since the AIDS crisis, seems to bear out precisely what Foucault decried as the deployment of sexuality in late capitalism. This is a time, he wrote in 1976, ‘in which the exploitation of wage...
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Chapter 4The Queer Space of the Drive: Rereading Freud with Laplanche

de Lauretis, Teresa

Pages: 58 –87

[The theory of drives has been possibly the most contested area in the whole of psychoanalytic theory, and the main point of contestation is the location of the drive. Is it endogenous, inherent in the biological organism, or a product of language and culture? Does it originate in the physical...
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Chapter 5Becoming Inorganic: Cronenberg’s eXistenZ, Virtuality and the Death Drive

de Lauretis, Teresa

Pages: 88 –113

[Released in 1999, David Cronenberg’s film eXistenZ is a reflection on the new technologies of postmodernity — information, communication and biotechnologies, and new interactive media; a reflection in the twin senses of speculation on (theory) and specularization of (techné) the effects they...
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Chapter 6The Odor of Memory: On Reading Djuna Barnes with Freud

de Lauretis, Teresa

Pages: 114 –150

[Psychoanalysis, ‘the talking cure’, materializes from a practice of language, a practice of listening and reading especially attuned to the rhetorical dimension of language. While the focused attention to figurality aligns it with literature, psychoanalysis is also drawn to the side of...
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Chapter 7Afterwards

de Lauretis, Teresa

Pages: 151 –152

[‘For me, only for me, time returns’, muses the eponymous narrator of Italo Svevo’s Confessions of Zeno (1923). Time has returned for me as well in the writing of this book: the war times of my early childhood, now dispersed and magnified on a global scale; the time of my first encounter with...

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