Thanatos and Civilization: Lacan, Marcuse, and the Death Drive

Autor/in	Cho, Daniel
Titel	Thanatos and Civilization: Lacan, Marcuse, and the Death Drive
Quelle	In: Policy Futures in Education, 4 (2006) 1, S.18-30 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1478-2103
DOI	10.2304/pfie.2006.4.1.18
Schlagwörter	Critical Theory; Psychiatry; Western Civilization; Death; Social Theories; Rhetorical Theory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kritische Theorie; Psychiatrie; Sterbefall; Tod; Todesfall; Gesellschaftstheorie
Abstract	During the 1950s and 1960s two thinkers, Herbert Marcuse and Jacques Lacan, were conducting a "return to Freud" for very similar reasons. If the differences between them are often advertised, their affinities are less so. In this article, I examine how their "return to Freud" and fidelity to psychoanalysis serves as a common ground to read each in conjunction with the other. Specifically, the Freudian figure of the death drive marks a deep homology within Marcuse and his ethic of "The Great Refusal," with Lacan's notion of living in-between "two deaths." Reading each as the dialectical complement of the other, this article concludes by provocatively reversing Marcuse's thesis in "Eros and Civilization": "Today the fight for "death," the fight for "Thantos," is the political fight." (Contains 10 notes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10