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backgrounds, one can infer the incidence of structural disavowal (both as a defense and a vicissitude of the drive) throgh the dialectics of presence – absence. Its difficult processing favors narcissistic injury, always present. Psychic work of the defenses, where the ‘no’ has a privileged status, allows the deconstruction of the negativism which involves the death drive in a kind of ontological causality. The proposes to leave the attribution of the death drive to the ‘traumatic’, because what is deadly is never the drive, but rather the way in which its effects are treated by ‘the other’. It is a different way of considering death, which would be a consequence of the loss of love of the object and not instinctive biological aim.
VI. E. DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONCEPT IN MEXICAN PSYCHOANALYSIS
VI. Ea. Juan Vives Rocabert Juan Vives Rocabert of the Asociación Psicoanalítica Mexicana , published the book “Death and its drive” [“ La muerte y su pulsión ”] (2013) introduces the concept of the death drive from biological, religious and philosophical perspectives. However, as his book deals with the Freudian concept of the death drive, he points out a conceptual distinction between the notion of death, in the biological domain, and the concept of the death drive, of a purely psychoanalytic lineage. Reviewing his book, Patricia Reyes of the Asociación Psicoanalítica de Guadalajara , (2015) notes that a central question remains as a backdrop throughout the book, does the death of the individual obey, among other causes, the death drive, as opposed to the primary Eros. Rocaberts’s starting point is to determine if the death drive corresponds to the general concept of the drive, with its force, object and aim of the sexual drives. He follows a conceptual path that starts form the notions of the Nirvana principle and the tendency towards complete discharge (contrary to the principle of constancy and the laws that govern the pleasure principle). Rocabert further explores correlations between psychoanalytic conceptualization of the drive and death drive with the contemporary notions of the ‘genetic program’ and the ‘programmed death’ of the molecular biology. Death and death drive are understood by the author as unavoidable complements of the other great force that ensures the perpetuation of the species: the sexual drives and psychosexuality. The concept of the death drive is seen as unavoidable in the study and the explanation of clinical phenomena, such as the compulsion to repeat, the transference, the negative therapeutic reaction, the unconscious feeling of guilt, melancholia and suicide, as well as other veiled forms of self-destruction such as addictions, anorexia and bulimia, and psychosomatic conditions, among others. In his reviewing and revising the concept of drive and its development, Rocabert focuses particularly on the third stage of the drive theory of the life drive - death drive dualism. He depicts specifically the way how economic point of view is placed into a structural perspective: Eros binds, connects, forms structures, while Thanatos unbinds, disconnects, and destroys. Several pertinent methodological questions are contemplated, e.g., How could the
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