Abstract

PAIM FILHO, Ignácio Alves. Freud reinventing Freud: back to the origins (metapsychological formulation on death drive). Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2012, vol.46, n.2, pp. 166-178. ISSN 0486-641X.

The aim of this paper is to rethink the 90 years since the publication of Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Freud, 1920). With this work as a basis, the author seeks to compile and review texts that support a metapsychological approach to death drive. To such an end, he uses the following pieces as references: The Uncanny (1919), The Economic Problem of Masochism (1924), Negation (1925), and The Uneasiness in Culture (1930). By taking these texts into account, the author assesses the right and wrong turns of the metapsychological formulations on death drive, from thanatos to creation, looking into the origins of the psychic apparatus. Therefore, he reads specifically on masochism (1924) and states his conjectures on the relevance in considering the existence of non-erogenous primary masochism. Its importance could be associated with the connections and disconnections of psychic inscriptions that remit to what lies beyond the pleasure principle. Given this scenario, the author analyzes the destinies of this nonerogenous primary masochism: from trauma, which is not liable to transformation (non-representable), to primary and erogenous masochism (representable).

Keywords : primary masochism; death drive; non-erogenous; creation.

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