“Where my body takes me”: Last Exchanges between Freud and Abraham
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2009.
Sujet(s) : Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : Through the last exchanges in correspondence between Freud and Abraham, informed by Freudian theories on the second topography and by works that revisited the death drive and its transformation in the aging process, the author scrutinizes the psychology of the aging individual, confronted with finitude by the limits of their body. As the elderly are caught between the anticipated mourning for one’s ego, renouncement, and maintenance of the ambition to immortality needed to preserve one’s libidinal investments, they must find in this apparent contradiction the balance that will allow them to distance the body in order to survive despite their losses, and anchor themselves in sublimation.
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Through the last exchanges in correspondence between Freud and Abraham, informed by Freudian theories on the second topography and by works that revisited the death drive and its transformation in the aging process, the author scrutinizes the psychology of the aging individual, confronted with finitude by the limits of their body. As the elderly are caught between the anticipated mourning for one’s ego, renouncement, and maintenance of the ambition to immortality needed to preserve one’s libidinal investments, they must find in this apparent contradiction the balance that will allow them to distance the body in order to survive despite their losses, and anchor themselves in sublimation.
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