The fight as a motor for life

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https://doi.org/10.33064/41crscsh1378

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war, drive, fight, peace, conflict

Abstract

In the psychoanalytic text of 1932 Why the war?, Freud explores the possible causes of this phenomenon, which he traced back to the psychic constitution. The drive in its constructive (Eros) and destructive (Thanatos) forms reveals a war that is waged at the very heart of psychism. Lacan returns to Freud's work, introducing three complementary registers to the analysis of the psychic conflict. The wars between me and that, between the imaginary and the real, are a revealing approach to the issue of struggle, allowing us to reflect on the possibility and impossibility of reaching a state of peace, internally and externally.These two registers are not the only ones, there is a third, the symbolic one, that goes beyond war or peace. The drive is at its origin and has a transformative potential. This is what the analytic work should seek. Manifestations of excessive drive as violence are not desirable, nor is the absence of it.

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Author Biography

Ilse Paulina Medellín Delgado, Universidad del Valle de México

Ilse Paulina Medellín Delgado (pawi_723@hotmail.com) es Licenciada en Psicología. En 2009 se incorporó al Centro de Estudios Psicoanalíticos Mexicanos de Aguascalientes, institución en la que estudia la maestría en Orientación Psicoanalítica. Es docente en CEPSIMAAC y en la Universidad del Valle de México (ORCID: 0000-0002-5786-4323).

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Published

2019-07-01

How to Cite

Medellín Delgado, I. P. (2019). The fight as a motor for life. Caleidoscopio - Biannual Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 23(41), 53–63. https://doi.org/10.33064/41crscsh1378

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