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death drive en · NOUN

Etymology

Calque of German Todestrieb.

Meanings

1. The drive toward death and self-destruction.
   • The connection between the death drive and the symbolic order is a constant with Lacan, but we can differentiate the various stages of his teaching precisely by reference to the different modes of articulation of the death drive and the signifier: […] 1989, Slavoj Žižek, Ernesto Laclau, The Sublime Object of Ideology, Verso, →ISBN, page 131:

Forms

Synonyms

Thanatos · death instinct

Translations (5)

fi kuolemanvietti (drive toward death and self-destruction) · de Todestrieb (drive toward death and self-destruction) · fr pulsion de mort (drive toward death and self-destruction) · tr ölüm dürtüsü (drive toward death and self-destruction) · pl popęd śmierci (drive toward death and self-destruction)