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Death drive

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Noun
  1. 1
    The drive toward death and self-destruction.

    "The connection between the death drive and the symbolic order is a constant with Lacan, but we can differentiate the various stages of his teaching precisely by reference to the different modes of articulation of the death drive and the signifier: […]"

Etymology

Calque of German Todestrieb.

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