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lack, the hollow, the unspeakable par excellence, that is, death. The primitive Father, the subject of acts and not of words, becomes a constitutive acquisition of the Being that speaks, a determinant of a tendency that Freud called the Death Drive. It comes to exist as a sensitive experience of mutual belonging of the human being and the world. It exists as fundamentally belonging to language, a mark of a fissure between human beings and nature. VI. G. SERAPIO MARCANO: THINKING ABOUT THE DRIVE. MUTATION – TRANSFORMATION - EVOLUTION Serapio Marcano’s (1994) “Death drive? Or the death of the drive?”, [“¿Instinto de muerte? ¿O muerte de la pulsión?”] spawns deep theoretical thought at the intersection of psychoanalysis and philosophy. In this discourse he exposes some of the complexity implied in life and death instincts or drives as two pillars of the psychoanalytic theory. The resultant multiple vertexes, from which human phenomena can be theorized, have far reaching implications for both psychoanalytic theories, clinical method and practice. In Marcano’s view, the concept of the death drive forces revision of the role played by aggression in human bonds from the beginning of life . Aggression, as an attribute both universal and independent from all the drives, can at a given time become autonomous and gain more power within one of the two factions in dispute to achieve its aim. The aim can be to produce the disappearance/repression of the sexual drive seeking expression in the unconscious. This faction is in struggle with another one, whose component is phylogenetic and is neither the object of repression nor presentation. When the object appears and the formation of the Ego starts, aggression, at the service of the Ego drives, deals death to the sexual drives. The dramatization of the struggle can be represented within the subject himself that assumes the role of the repressing Ego and is at the same time the object of his own repressed sexual drives. The struggle can also be represented as an interactive bond with an ‘other’ from external reality. In this case aggressive drive can play the role of the aggressive ego drive that kills the sexual drive in the other, or also of the sexual drive that kills the ego or self-preservation drives of the individual, thus destroying the processes of symbolization and eventually, life itself. Aggression plays here only a secondary role in the dynamic and economic process of the sexual, ego or self-preservation drives. Marcano follows the fate of aggression through the evolution of the drive theory, from aggression as a component of all drives, through its rendering in the context of the subject- object relations, the relations between the ego and external reality, between pleasure and displeasure, including the affects of love and hate that such relations generate. Within this evolution, as the role of the object becomes increasingly more prominent, transformative and ‘trans-mutative’ properties of aggression become highlighted as well. When the object is the source of displeasure, it is rejected and hated, which can increase to the point of containing the purpose of its annihilation. But in the annihilation of the object, source of the displeasure, also killed are those aspects of the displeasing internal drive stimuli dissociated from the subject and projected or reprojected to the external world. The hate that
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