death drive
English
editEtymology
editCalque of German Todestrieb.
Noun
editdeath drive (plural death drives)
- (psychoanalysis) The drive toward death and self-destruction.
- Synonyms: death instinct, Thanatos
- 1989, Slavoj Žižek, Ernesto Laclau, The Sublime Object of Ideology, Verso, →ISBN, page 131:
- The connection between the death drive and the symbolic order is a constant with Lacan, but we can differentiate the various stages of his teaching precisely by reference to the different modes of articulation of the death drive and the signifier: […]
Further reading
edit- death drive on Wikipedia.Wikipedia