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Freud’s Drive: Psychoanalysis, Literature and FilmThe Queer Space of the Drive: Rereading Freud with Laplanche

Freud’s Drive: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film: The Queer Space of the Drive: Rereading Freud... [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 body, or is it produced as an effect in psychic formation? And if so, what manner of effect: is the drive an effect of the signifier, a discursive effect, or is it the effect of something else? These questions are prompted by an ambivalence apparent in Freud’s writings, which recurs at various turning points in the development of his thought; so much so that Jean Laplanche, one of Freud’s most astute and closest readers, has spoken of Freud’s work as ‘the unfinished Copernican revolution’.1] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Freud’s Drive: Psychoanalysis, Literature and FilmThe Queer Space of the Drive: Rereading Freud with Laplanche

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008
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978-1-349-35720-8
Pages
58 –87
DOI
10.1057/9780230583047_4
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Abstract

[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 body, or is it produced as an effect in psychic formation? And if so, what manner of effect: is the drive an effect of the signifier, a discursive effect, or is it the effect of something else? These questions are prompted by an ambivalence apparent in Freud’s writings, which recurs at various turning points in the development of his thought; so much so that Jean Laplanche, one of Freud’s most astute and closest readers, has spoken of Freud’s work as ‘the unfinished Copernican revolution’.1]

Published: Sep 14, 2015

Keywords: Sexual Drive; Sexual Excitation; Pleasure Principle; Death Drive; Repetition Compulsion

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