A pulsão de morte: genealogia de um conceito fundamental da psicanálise

Abstract

Before the question about the reasons that led Sigmund Freud to formulate the concept of the death drive traced the creator of psychoanalysis steps in building this concept. What place in psychoanalytic theory should be reserved to the death instinct as a key concept? Is it correct to think of the drive as the element that leads Freud to think metapsychologically? Psychoanalysis is created as a method of approach to the unconscious psychic problems. According to Freud, these problems have their origin in sexual matters. The drive is the concept created to address human sexuality. This research shows that the idea of instinct precedes the other Freudian concepts, although not named in previous texts to its concept in 1905. We found that Freud follows the trail appointed by bisexuality denounced by hysterical. The hysteria arouses the interest and the genius of Freud, dragging it to a 'beyond' field on an unprecedented theoretical bet. Such puzzles now instigate Jacques Lacan leading him to state that every drive is virtually death drive.