IPA Inter-Regional Encyclopedic Dictionary of Psychoanalysis

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modification: to distinguish a destructive pro-life component from the thanatic component of such drive . He proposes that ‘destructiveness’ needs to be considered in its duplicity ; as thanatic destruction , which hinders the construction of new meanings, which corresponds to the so- called pathologies of the non-representable, and as vitalizing destruction , which, together with the deconstruction of the established, allows the creation of conditions for the arrival of new connections. Considering that the death drive does not have a quality and that it is only a blind force that presses towards discharge, Paim Filho adds the dimension of anxiety as another important way to present the irrepresentable quality of the death drive, ranging from signal anxiety to automatic anxiety. The vitalizing or thanatic quality will be given by the ‘color of the libido’ of the sexual drive, which contains and is contained by the object. Therefore, the libido has ‘the task’ to invest and divert the original force of the death drive in its most varied forms of repetition (in conjunction with signal or automatic anxieties). When dealing with the subject of silence and its connection with the drive, he theorizes that silence is the result of the absence of significant differences between the drive forces , which implies the death of the wish and/or the absence of its construction. This absence contributes to psychic homeostasis at a low level of psychic entropy. Seeking to discriminate between the death drive and the destruction drive, Paim Filho points out that Freud generally takes them as synonymous, but only refers to the destruction drive when the death drive is linked to libido. He further considers that late Freud (1940 [1938], p. 149) calls drive of destruction what addresses the outside and then stops being silent. With this in mind, Palm proposes the following construction: 1. The concept of the death drive, when not connected (to libido), refers to the ineffable chaos of the drive, as a borderline concept between the somatic and the psychic . In this form it is silent , it is not subject to any organizing principle, it is a pure dispersed power. In maintaining its conservative character; it only points in the direction of discharge. Its object is everything and at the same time none: the silent Goddess of Death. 2. The concept of the death drive, in the form of the drive of destruction, which has the aim of tearing the connections, aiming at the discharge, generating murmurs and whispers ; it reveals the impossibility of full satisfaction of the wish, because its connection is always partial, since the object source of the libido is always incomplete. When the destruction drive, in economic terms, is not elaborated, is closely related to entropy. When it is not invested by the libido, drive is chaos and tends to death; where it establishes its connection with primary masochism, it will remain as a non- erotogenic primary masochism. However, inasmuch as the libido invests it, it will lead to primary and erogenous masochism, with its potential for the development of feminine and moral masochism. Paim Filho contemplates the ramifications of primary masochism (Freud 1924) and the ubiquity of the non-erotic destructiveness with its transformations, taking another look look at its manifestations, especially the compulsion to repeat (CR) and the negative therapeutic reaction (NTR). The paradoxical negative therapeutic reaction is the product of the superego’s moral masochism in its relation to the ego’s masochism. The more lethal the negative therapeutic reaction, the more impulse for destruction, the less libido, the more need for

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