Abstract

CAROPRESO, Fátima. Death instinct, trauma and limits of therapy for Freud. Analytica [online]. 2013, vol.2, n.2, pp. 59-76. ISSN 2316-5197.

From 1920 onwards, the hypothesis of the experience of pain (or traumatic experience) - which was present in Freud's early theory, but later abandoned - returns to the foreground of his thinking. This return is related to the formulation of the concepts of repetition compulsion and death instinct. This paper's objective is to discuss some of the changes in Freud's hypotheses on the etiology of neuroses and in his conceptions on the effectiveness of psychoanalytic therapy which seem to follow from this return of the experience of pain and from the introduction of the concept of death instinct.

Keywords : Freudian psychoanalysis; death instinct; trauma; neuroses.

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