From desire to decathexis: are we really in a period of sad passions? Reflections on today’s psychoanalysis and the death drive
Journal title RICERCA PSICOANALITICA
Author/s Rossella Valdrè
Publishing Year 2018 Issue 2018/1
Language Italian Pages 21 P. 41-61 File size 238 KB
DOI 10.3280/RPR2018-001005
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Abstract: The article describes the psychic phenomenon of decathexis starting from the title of a well know essay, giving a psychoanalytical definition and reexamining Freud’s essay Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) tracing its clinical consequences and widespread social and cultural impact. This article intends to stress the importance of the essay that caused the shift of psychoanalysis with the introduction of the concept of death drive. The essay is especially well suited today to explain the subtle and socially approved extension of the clinical-social forms of decathexis that go from drug addiction to the absence of desire for anything. The post-modern clinic is a clinic of the death drive, seen as Freud did not as acted out aggression but as search for non-thought and non-tension. The article closes reflecting on the ability of psychoanalysis to play a role in this situation.
Keywords: Decathexis, death drive, contemporary psychoanalysis, addiction, post-modernism
Rossella Valdrè, Dal desiderio al disinvestimento: è davvero l’epoca delle passioni tristi? Riflessioni sulla psicoanalisi contemporanea e la pulsione di morte in "RICERCA PSICOANALITICA" 1/2018, pp 41-61, DOI: 10.3280/RPR2018-001005