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VI. G. DEVELOPMENTS IN CHILEAN PSYCHOANALYSIS In Chile , Marcela Fuentes and Marie France Brunet have explored the concept of the death drive, mostly through European authors. (Another Chilean author Pilar Cubillos is included in the interdisciplinary section VII B.) VI. Ga. Marie France Brunet Marie France Brunet , (2002, 2013, 2019) explores various aspects of the concept drive in three publications: In “ En torno a los conceptos de envidia primaria y pulsión de muerte ” (On the concepts of primary envy and the death drive) she revises the concept of the death drive by developing aspects of Melanie Klein’s theory, in combination with various post-Kleinian and French authors. Specifically, she explores the concepts of the death drive, primary envy, and the relationship between them. In “ El par pulsion y objeto. Homenaje a Green ” (The pair drive and object. In homage to Green) she explores how Green discusses Freud’s interpretation of the death drive, especially the limited space Freud granted to the role of the object in the structuring process of the psyche. However, she notes that, in the structural model of 1923, Freud locates the drives of love, life and death in the Id, without any presentations or content . The inclusion of the destructive drives within the apparatus aims at the suggestion that there is something that never reaches the condition of an unconscious presentation (it is irrepresentable). Its model is the internal or external act. In her third book, “ Pulsión en la obra de Green ” (The drive in Green’s works), Brunet offers a synthesis of her previous two papers. She arrives at a similar perspective as Green regarding the value of the concept of the drive as the matrix of the subject. The object reveals the drive, with its movements of presence and absence. VI. Gb. Marcela Fuente Marcela Fuentes (2019), in “The theory of the death drive in Klein” [ “ Teoría de la pulsión de muerte en Klein ”] takes as a starting point Money-Kyrle’s (1955) view that the ‘ultimate truth’ of psychoanalysis is probably an infinite complexity; one can only draw closer to the truth through an infinite series of approximations. In this vein, she describes how Klein thought both love and hate – the manifestations of the two drives – would be innate, immediately adhering to the object itself. Therefore, the two drives find an object to bind immediately after birth. Freud, on the other hand, contended that in relation to object, hate preceded love, pursuant to his hypothesis of a primary narcissism. Fuentes sees also complexity and contradictions within the Kleinian thought and forges her own extension of both – Klein and Freud. The Kleinian theorization above would contradict
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