Abstract

CAMPOS, Érico Bruno Viana; GODEGUEZI, Martinucho  and  LIMA, João Gabriel Bertucci. The status of self-conservation on freud's first instinct theory. Est. Inter. Psicol. [online]. 2020, vol.11, n.1, pp. 49-70. ISSN 2236-6407.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5433/2236-6407.2020v11n1p49.

This theoretical essay discusses the instinct of self-preservation status under Freud's theory, aiming to analyze the organismic and functionalist references as an epistemological foundation of psychoanalysis. The instincts theory undergoes substantial changes during Freud's work, and it was subject to various interpretations that usually relegate to the background or even exclude the instincts of self-preservation of the psychoanalysis field. It presents the foundations of this theorization in the classic Freudian texts on the first drive theory and the complexity of its characterization, especially the questions of its source and its affiliation to biological functions, the lability of its object, its role in the defensive dynamics and in psychosexual development. It discusses the interpretations of this legacy from its double affiliation: humanist and naturalistic. It is concluded that this problem is an important point of tension in the characterization of the epistemological heterogeneity of psychoanalysis as a field of knowledge.

Keywords : psychoanalysis; instinct;self-preservation; Freud, Sigmund; 1856-1939.

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