Death

John Desmond
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John Desmond: University of St Andrews

Chapter 5 in Psychoanalytic Accounts of Consuming Desire, 2013, pp 117-143 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Although the question of death features in Freud’s earliest writings, this moves centre-stage in the two key papers discussed in this chapter: Mourning and Melancholia (Freud, [1917] 1991) and Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Freud, [1920] [1991]). Today, when the almost inevitable response to depression is medication, it is some comfort that Freud’s insights have been revived (e.g. Leader, 2009) for an audience in search of movement beyond numbness.

Keywords: Tobacco Industry; Mortality Salience; Funeral Rite; Terror Management Theory; Pleasure Principle (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137289087_5

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