Les pulsions caractérisées par leurs destins : Freud s'éloigne-t-il du concept philosophique de Trieb ?

Abstract

Referring to drives and their destiny as Freud did in 1904, means circumventing right away the dualisms of body vs. mind, or nature vs. spirit: drives are a montage inventing a plastic connection between pressure, aim, object, and source. Calling the field of drives sexuality means supposing that it is on this field that the human individual forms himself temporally, inasmuch as his existence, as well as his thinking, would be dependent on pleasure, displeasure and anguish. However, this temporality is that of a destiny rather than that of a history: that which opposes a resistance to this plasticity is a destructiveness called by Freud narcissism, then death instinct (or drive). Its concept is elaborated on the basis of repetition phenomena, in the clinical experience of psychoanalysis.