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kills the object is not the result or the expression of an original instinct that tends towards destruction to restore an original inorganic state, as is suggested in Freud’s last drive theory, but it is rather secondary to the emergence of the displeasure contained in the external world that stimulates the wish.The aim is always to make displeasure disappear and with it, the feeling of hate, giving room to love by finding objects that provide pleasure. From there, the bonds of love and hate that adopt different forms develop. According to Marcano, what defines the different points of view is their emphasis on what happens at the level of the constitution of the psyche, where there would be a movement from ‘narcissistic’ mental state , as Freud calls it, or ‘autistic’, as Bleuler called it, to an object relation , when emerging from an initial biological state into a mental state, into the extra uterine world, where the Object, with all its psychic history, provides the nascent Subject with its identificatory model. Freud said as much in “Group psychology and the analysis of the ego” (1921), defining identification “as the earliest expression of an emotional tie with another person” (ibid, p. 105). n this vein, Marcano wonders if the psychic is pertinent to a mythology, or to a psychoanalytic theory of affects that are constituted in the Object (Other) and that would constitute the Subject by identification. In a highly theoretical derivation, including also Klein’s work on identification (1955), Marcano theorizes that acts perhaps also represent a language that expresses the vicissitudes of love and hate, which can later, following psychic integration, be communicated through a thing and a word presentation that reveal the result of the Intersubjective bond, which, through identification, becomes intra-subjective. Following contemporary authors, Marcano tries to explore if the vitalizing quality of an interaction between subject and object is thanatic or erotic-libidinal? His contention seems to be that the psychoanalyst, as a sensitive spectator, with an offer of affective elements as expressions of the life drive can perhaps transform the common empirical object (a reflection of the death drive) as the subject of acts and not of words, into an esthetic object.
VII. INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES
To advance his theoretical progress, Freud frequently called upon other fields, such as biological sciences, anthropology, linguistics, archaeology, art, literature, etc., basing himself on their analogical links without confusing them. Accordingly, there is a wide acknowledgement within the contemporary psychoanalytic discourse that if the differences between the fields of inquiry with their different methodologies and terminologies are recognized and not confused, the interdisciplinary connections, applications, and cross- fertilization between psychoanalysis and other fields of inquiry can lead to fertile analogies and new hypotheses.
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