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Abstract: The present developed work is an attempt to explore the ways that
conducted Freud to the postulation of the death drive concept, investigating
first the origin of the concept from the drive theory inserted in a general formality
that organizes, in an ampler system, the interaction of the psychic processes.
After that, there is the necessity to investigate the hypothesis of a primary
tendency of the organism to a complete reduction of tensions, where Freud
intends to give account of the basic dualism, translated in the opposition between
life and death drives, of the compulsion phenomena to the repetition, of the
aggressiveness origin, standing out the primacy of the self-aggressiveness over
the hetero-aggressiveness. Although Freud himself had said that this idea was
the product of a theoretical speculation and that with the quiet manifestations of
death drive and its vicissitudes, he found serious difficulties in the inquiry of its
existence, it’s impossible to deny the importance of this concept for the analysis
of the human behavior.
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