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Freud's conceptual opposition of death and eros drives in the human psyche was applied by Walter A. Davis in Deracination: Historicity, Hiroshima, and the Tragic Imperative [85] and Death's Dream Kingdom: The American Psyche since 9/11. [86] Davis described social reactions to both Hiroshima and 9/11 from the Freudian viewpoint of the death force.
The essay, marking Freud's major revision of his drive theory, elaborates on the struggle between two opposing drives. In the first few sections, Freud describes these as Eros, which produces creativity, harmony, sexual connection, reproduction, and self-preservation; and the "death drives" (what some call "Thanatos" [4]), which brings destruction, repetition, aggression, compulsion, and self ...
Freud begins the seventh chapter by clearly explaining how the repression of the death instinct gives rise to neurosis in the individual: the natural aggressiveness of the human child is suppressed by society (and its local representative, the father-figure) and turned inward, introjected, directed back against the ego.
Freud's hypothesis of the death instinct, put forward in Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920), is criticized by Ricœur, who describes it as speculative and as resting on a limited factual basis. He draws connections between Freud's ideas about the death instinct and his views about the structure of the mind as presented in The Ego and the Id ...
Freud desired to understand religion and spirituality and deals with the nature of religious beliefs in many of his books and essays. He regarded God as an illusion, based on the infantile need for a powerful father figure. Freud believed that religion was an expression of underlying psychological neuroses and distress.
Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History (1959; second edition 1985) is a book by the American classicist Norman O. Brown, in which the author offers a radical analysis and critique of the work of Sigmund Freud, tries to provide a theoretical rationale for a nonrepressive civilization, explores parallels between psychoanalysis and Martin Luther's theology, and draws on ...
Freud links Trafoi to the theme death and sexuality, a theme preceding the word-finding problem in a conversation Freud had during a trip by train through Bosnia-Herzegovina. The second important ingredient in Freud's analysis is the extraction of an Italian word signor from the forgotten name Signorelli.
The second essay addressed what Freud called the peacetime "protection racket" whereby the inevitability of death was expunged from civilized mentality. [5]Building on the second essay in Totem and Taboo, [6] Freud argued that such an attitude left civilians in particular unprepared for the stark horror of industrial-scale death in the Great War. [7]