death drive

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death drive

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Calque of German Todestrieb.

noun death drives

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: […]
Similar: death instinct, Thanatos

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noun drive toward death and self-destruction

Français	pulsion de mort
Deutsch	Todestrieb

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@misc{death_drive_2026,
  title = {death drive},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/death%20drive},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}