Abstract

LIMA, Mariana Machado Rocha. Masochism: the fusion between eros and thanatos. Trivium [online]. 2015, vol.7, n.1, pp. 88-99. ISSN 2176-4891.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18370/2176-4891.2015v1p88.

The main objective of this article is to rethink how the subjects constitute themselves through the concept of erogenous masochism. The Freudian statement (1923) that the erogenous masochism was a witness of the early moments where there was a fusion between life drive and the death drive, reveals the straight bond between the notion of masochism and the emergency of the subjects in the psychoanalysis theory. Therefore, masochism is a privileged source for the understanding of primitive aspects of mental life onset. The methodology used through this research was a conceptual-historic bibliographic investigation of the complete works of Sigmund Freud, the father of Psychoanalysis.

Keywords : Masochism; Perverse polymorph sexuality; Fantasy and death drive.

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