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Freud’s theories inevitably return to two things: sex and death. Eros and Thanatos. The life drive and the death drive. He believed human behaviour was driven by the need to create and the urge ...

At the end of his final book, “Civilization and Its Discontents,” Sigmund Freud advanced the possibility of a new upwelling of Eros that might counter the nihilistic death-force which he ...

its members instinctively bound by Eros and aggression. Reciprocity, however, can take the form of gratitude or vengeance. Frederick Crews’s “Freud: The Making of an Illusion” (2017 ...

Perplexo com a agressividade dos homens, Freud também não acreditava muito na espécie e, em Além do Princípio do Prazer, havia formulado a hipótese de uma pulsão de morte, que conviveria às turras com ...

There is a very funny treatment here of a girl campaign-worker who could be the heroine, if not of Vaginal Politics, then of a novel perhaps entitled Politics as Eros. Freud and Adler were ...

Freud adopted the word eros from the Greeks and used it to describe our “life drive” or “life instinct.” He conceptualized eros as our drive towards creativity, passion, love, and species ...

In the realm of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theories, Eros and Thanatos stand out prominently. Eros, the life instinct, is driven by the desire to create life and establish harmonious ...

In his first piece of writing on Eros, Viennese physician and psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud wrote in 1912 that Eros could be thought of as a subterranean reservoir having two streams ...