Under the Influence of Thanatos


	Psychology and Psychotechnics Reference: Suetin T.A. Under the Influence of Thanatos // Psychology and Psychotechnics. 2015. № 5. P. 523-534. URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=66558 Suetin T.A. Under the Influence of Thanatos Abstract: The article is devoted to the problem of death drive as a natural constituent element of existence and its defining role for human and society as well as such the exaggerated neurotic death drive as the appetence to early death. In his research Suetin describes possible causes of such behavior based on the analysis of a particular case of autodestruction. The researcher also analyzes the tendencies of mass death drive in the modern society and prerequisites for the scientific and technical development and its influence on human and his future. Death drive is studied by the author in terms of classical psychoanalysis and Sigmund Freud's theory of instinctual drive and death and death instinct are analyzed from the point of view of philosophical anthropology, postmodernism and cultural studies. The author states that death drive is fundamental to life instinct which energy is presented as having active and passive forms. Life instinct is a natural movement of motivated energy and death instinct is an inert but inavoidable energy. The author also demonstrates how these drives reverse as a result of traumatic events experiened by human and deformation of development trends in the society. Keywords: the fear of death, society, unconscious, instinct, autodestruction, aggression, instinctual drive, Death, Life, clinical history This article can be downloaded freely in PDF format for reading. Download article References 1. Gurevich P.S. O zhizni i smerti // Zhizn' zemnaya i posleduyushchaya / Sost. Gurevich P.S., Levit S.Ya. – M.: Politizdat, 1991, 2. Freyd Z. My i smert' // Sobranie sochineniy / Izd-vo AST, firma STD, 2008 g. 3. Freyd Z. Po tu storonu printsipa udovol'stviya / Z. Freyd – M,; Progress, 1992 g. 4. Shpil'reyn S. Destruktsiya, kak prichina stanovleniya / Perevod M.I. Shpil'reyn po izdaniyu Sabina Spielrein, Die Destruktion als Ursache des Werdens. Jahrbuch fur psychoanalytische und psycho-Patologische Forschungen, 1912, N4: 465-503. Redaktor perevoda — Nikiforov O.V. 5. Fromm E. Anatomiya chelovecheskoy destruktivnosti / Per. s angl. E. M. Telyatnikova, T. V. Panfilova, Izd-vo AST, Seriya: Philosophy, 2004 6. Bodriyyar Zh. Simvolicheskiy obmen i smert' /-M.: Dobrosvet, 2000 g. 7. Shneydman E. Dusha samoubiytsy / Seriya: Teoriya i praktika psikhologicheskoy pomoshchi. Izd-vo Smysl, 2001 8. Fromm E. Avtorskiy sbornik «Radi lyubvi k zhizni», // Perevod s angl, sostavitel' P.S. Gurevich. Izd-vo AST, 2000 9. Freyd Z. Vlecheniya i ikh sud'ba // Zigmund Freyd. Osnovnye psikhologicheskie teorii v psikhoanalize. Ocherk istorii psikhoanaliza: sbornik / SPb., Izd-vo Aleteyya, 1998 10. Vinnikott D.V. Teoriya roditel'sko-mladencheskikh otnosheniy // Zhurnal prakticheskoy psikhologii i psikhoanaliza, 2005, №2 11. Sirs U., Sirs M. Vash malysh ot rozhdeniya do dvukh let /— M.: Izd-vo Eksmo, 2006 12. Rank O. Travma rozhdeniya i ee znachenie dlya psikhoanaliza / — M.: Kogito-Tsentr, 2009 13. Reutin M.Yu. Slovar' srednevekovoy kul'tury // M., Rossiyskaya politicheskaya entsiklopediya (ROSSPEN), 2003. 14. Bodriyyar Zh. Simvolicheskiy obmen i smert' /-M.: Dobrosvet, 2000 g. 15. Fromm E. Anatomiya chelovecheskoy destruktivnosti / Per. s angl. E. M. Telyatnikova, T. V. Panfilova, Izd-vo AST, Seriya: Philosophy, 2004 16. Vul'f T. Sorry but Your Soul just Died / Forbes ASAP, 2 dekabrya, 19963, 17. Fukuyama F. Nashe postchelovecheskoe budushchee: Posledstviya biotekhnologicheskoy revolyutsii / Per. s angl. M.B. Levin, Izd-vo AST, 2004 18. Kutyrev V.A. Prel'shchenie bessmertiem (ob abioticheskikh tendentsiyakh sovremennoy tsivilizatsii). // Nizhniy Novgorod. 1997. №6.

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