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Aneconomy, Indirection, Undecidability: Derrida’s “Principled” Critique of the Death Drive
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differences (2020) 31 (1): 135–162.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Azeen Khan This essay explores how, in each of Jacques Derrida’s late encounters with psychoanalysis, he critiques the limit of a certain economic principle of the Freudian death drive, opening up its deterministic logic to a principle of indetermination. The essay draws out three key terms...
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The Aesthetic Death Drive of Modernism
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differences (2020) 31 (2): 58–85.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Matthew Gannon This essay argues not only that Wilhelm Worringer’s concept of the urge to abstraction from his work of art history Abstraction and Empathy (1908) prefigures Sigmund Freud’s notion of the death drive in Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) but also that Worringer’s aesthetics...
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differences (2017) 28 (2): 1–4.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Tracy McNulty © 2017 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies The death drive may be the least understood concept in Freud’s work. It is certainly the least widely adopted, in any case among clinical practitioners claiming to practice or be inspired...
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Unbound: The Speculative Mythology of the Death Drive
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differences (2017) 28 (2): 86–115.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Tracy McNulty As a drive to the inorganic, the death drive is fundamentally opposed to sensuality and, specifically, to pleasure and pain. This is why Gilles Deleuze understands Freud’s account of the death drive as the “beyond of the pleasure principle” not in terms of the transgression...
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Psychoanalysis and the Freudian Rupture
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differences (2017) 28 (2): 5–23.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Willy Apollon This metapsychological essay attempts to deduce the origin of the death drive from the author’s clinical experience with analysands under transference. It proposes that Freud locates the stakes of speech, as a response to the Other, at the heart of the question of languager–but under...
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The Coup: Behind the Scenes of the Act with Philippe Petit
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differences (2017) 28 (2): 116–133.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Steven Miller This essay discusses the minor art form of high-wire walking in order to show that the agency of the death drive manifests itself by adding rather than removing something from the symbolic order. The essay focuses primarily on the work of Philippe Petit, especially the clandestine...
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Psychoanalysis of the Excommunicated
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 72–89.
Published: 01 December 2022
... the death instinct becomes “the drive to annihilate the need, to annihilate the perceiving experiencing self, as well as anything that is perceived” (55). Works Cited The Banyan . https://thebanyan.org/aboutus/ ( accessed 13 June 2022 ). Baranger M. Baranger W. Mom J...
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No Such Thing as Society? On Competition, Solidarity, and Social Bond
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 51–71.
Published: 01 December 2022
... transformation of human being into an abject being. 9 This disturbing systemic tendency is equally reflected in Freud’s diagnosis of cultural malaise and his reflections on what he elsewhere calls the “pure culture of the death-drive” ( Freud, Ego 53 , trans. mod.). The proliferation of cultural malaise...
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Impersonal Grief: Charles Dickens and Serial Forms of Affect
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differences (2018) 29 (3): 86–106.
Published: 01 December 2018
... and the death drive: “[ J ] ouissance is an excessive surplus of ‘affect’ resulting from the intertwining of the pleasure principle’s libido and the death drive” (149). Affect, in this sense, would not describe a pure state of feeling or sensation; rather, it would describe the way in which feeling...
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Language, Body, Drive: Rereading Totem and Taboo through Jakobson and Lacan
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differences (2017) 28 (2): 46–64.
Published: 01 September 2017
... and manifestation of a deeper and more impersonal structure. This structure is the competitive interdependence of difference and identity, metaphor and metonymy: the inscription of difference in identity as an internal alien and the consequent competitive interdependence of the life and death drives. In accordance...
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Lynne Huffer’s Are the Lips a Grave? Averting and Accentuating the Genealogical
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differences (2016) 27 (3): 132–144.
Published: 01 December 2016
... “ethics of life” against those who turn “morality inside out by embracing and sublimating the psyche’s ‘death drive’” ( Mad 115 ), she has offered her own reasons why the options aren’t “life versus death” with her interesting account of the contemporary project of pursuing quality of life and work-life...
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Learning Nothing: Bad Education
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differences (2017) 28 (1): 124–173.
Published: 01 May 2017
... . Edelman Lee . Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory . New York : Routledge , 1994 . Edelman Lee . No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive . Durham : Duke UP , 2004 . Freccero Carla . “ Animal Subjectivity .” MLA Convention , Austin, TX , 9 Jan. 2016...
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Femininity
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 113–118.
Published: 01 May 2023
... entry into the canon of queer theory. In part, this has to do with the way the essay attaches pleasure to the possibility of death, which would for many conjoin the essay with Lee Edelman’s No Future , a polemic that sutures queerness explicitly with the death drive and nonreproduction, in a lineage...
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An Ethics of Desubjectivation?
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differences (2016) 27 (3): 106–118.
Published: 01 December 2016
..., an “impossible ethics” that responds to the nonrelation in relation itself, an “ethics” that offers no vision of a realized good or repaired sociality, but my work does insist on the place of negativity and the centrality of the death drive. This negativity, as I engage it, however, emanates from a structuring...
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Postapocalyptic Responsibility: Patriarchy at the End of the World in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
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differences (2014) 25 (2): 33–61.
Published: 01 September 2014
... . ———. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive . Durham : Duke UP , 2004 . Freud Sigmund . “ Mourning and Melancholia .” 1917 . The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud . Trans. and ed. Strachey James . Vol 14 . London : Hogarth , 1957 . 237 – 58 . 24...
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Lost and Never Found: The Queer Archive of Feelings and Its Historical Propriety
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differences (2013) 24 (3): 36–62.
Published: 01 December 2013
.... 821 – 23 . ———. “ Ever After: History, Negativity, and the Social .” South Atlantic Quarterly 106.3 ( Summer 2007 ): 469 – 76 . ———. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive . Durham : Duke UP , 2004 . Halberstam Judith . In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies...
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The Drive, the Untreatable Quest of Desire
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differences (2017) 28 (2): 24–45.
Published: 01 September 2017
... that are inside of me. Despite my anger or hatred, my drives, or my fantasies and ideas of death, in spite of everything that might push me to do things, there are acts that I don’t want to commit either against myself or against others. There are opinions that I do not want to have, a hypocrisy I refuse. I chose...
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Melancholic Modernity: The Hom(m)osexual Symptom and the Homosocial Corpse
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differences (1994) 6 (2-3): 174–198.
Published: 01 July 1994
... to the death drive. The rigid impersonality of the disembodied gaze, in other words, anchors the Gestalt of the corpus socians to the onto-logic (and morbid patho-Iogic) of the deceased father: of the paternal corpse. The social body is held-sustained and gripped-within a morbid structure of cognition which...
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differences (2024) 35 (3): 1–13.
Published: 01 December 2024
... impossible “embrace” crystallizes a queer metarelation to nonrelation; it contorts an existing figure of belonging (the embrace) into a strange and surreal form—namely, the image of queers welcoming the chilly death drive with a warm hug. My point is not that Edelman is secretly a relational theorist. Rather...
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“What Does Death Represent to the Individual?” Psychoanalysis and Wartime
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differences (2009) 20 (1): 102–116.
Published: 01 May 2009
... the morally lacerating agonies of our first
losses—which is why mourning always has the potential to drive us mad, as
if to lose a loved one is to reencounter the limits of one’s psychic existence.
Each death is always a figure...
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