Abstract

GERCHMANN, Augusta  and  ANTUNES, César Augusto. Primary hatred and individualization processes. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2019, vol.53, n.1, pp.79-92. ISSN 0486-641X.

Drawing on Freudian concepts concerning the second topic, and particularly the concepts of life drive and death drive, this paper develops the idea of existence of a structuring primary hatred. Additional contributions include views by André Green and others on attachment and detachment processes, where frustrations arising from the mismatch between the baby's demands and maternal desire are related with an increase in early life anxieties that will have impacts on the fate of drives and the subject's life. The life drive generates connections and awakens desire, being at the base of identificatory processes. On the other hand, the death drive, being attenuated by its connections with representations, will be expressed as destructive desires toward the object. Having termed this process "primary hatred," we understand it as contributing, no less importantly, to establishing the early individualization process. While the bonds between being and object establish an identity-i.e., being identical-the processes related to destructiveness provide the psychic marks for the construction of individuality- i.e., the indivisible.

Keywords : life drive; death drive; identity; individuality; primary hatred.

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