Posted by James K on January 17, 2006, at 11:29:50
In reply to Eros and Thanatos, posted by alexandra_k on January 17, 2006, at 1:29:53
um, that was all over my head, so I wrote a poem using your words. sorry. carry on.
Freud’s Libido
Sexuality drives a circuitous route.
Our physical movements drives his root.
Energy builds up, Release of tension
against the outside world,
his theory formation.
We achieve forever from his difficulty.
He worked it into his metapsychology.
do> make with comeputso much directed feelaim.releaseIntroductionsexual act
libido, a release of tension.‘According to Freud, the development of the sometimes referred to as or the life instinct, is what our psychological development.need of the death instinct was drawn from experience of , particularly of the First World War, in understanding how human beings could themselves through misery without ebelling.
> He by arguing that both the life and death instincts from the same and have the same aim: However, they choose different ways to that The life instinct chooses through the of relationships with others, ivity and heproduction of children, the continuation of life. The death instinct chooses a more direct route: the.However, it can be subordinated to the life instinct when it is an external enemy…
>> [What I'm wondering about now is whether need to posit a ‘death instinct’ in addition to e ‘life instinct’, or whether we can make do with the ?]> [Melanie Klein suggested] that we regard it as a natural destructive impulse, built into and our ability to angry.
> These two ... Can be seen as providing the energy for psychic life and the basis of the psychic structures... The problem with carthartic is that again so we get back to where we started from... Psychoanalytic therapy... aims at changing the structures through which the energy is processed.>
> "Psychoanalysis: A Critical " pp. 19-20
> What I'm wondering about now is whether we to posit an ‘agressive instinct’ in addition to the ‘life instinct’, or whether we can the libido?
poster:James K
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