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remembering possible. Such transferential repetitions must be distinguished from the more drive-promoted repetitions that work in favor of death. 5. What defines the death drive is the fact that it operates silently and is opposed to any activity of symbolizing, localizing, binding, signifying, that is, opposed to the category of what can be spoken of and thought about. 6. Eros and Thanatos are considered as related to the tendencies for binding and unbinding, respectively. Both Eros and Thanatos are conditions of life. VI. Dc. Mirta Casas de Pereda Mirta Casas de Pereda, in “El Trauma y el Inconsciente” (1996) [Trauma and the unconscious] offers a multi-theoretical review of the death drive in theory and in clinical practice, through the lens of original Lacanian perspective. In this perspective, starting with Freud, where castration is comprehensively related to every loss (as it pertains to individual’s psychosexual development) and every transforrmation the drive passes through (oral, anal, phallic, the love of the object), and following with post-Freudian authors, one can infer the incidence of structural disavowal (both as a defense and a vicissitude of the drive) through the dialectics of presence – absence. In this view, narcissistic injury is 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. She 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 , author of 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 Eros. Rocaberts’ starting point is to determine if the death drive corresponds to the general concept of the drive, that is, if it is characterized – analogous to the sexual drives – by
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