Barbier, André <br/><br/>
Thoughts on Freud’s Theory of the Life Drive’s Early Stages 

 -  2007.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> Freud originally considered that the self-preservation drive was fuelled by " egoism ", and later by libido. The classical notion that the sexual drive is supported by the self-preservation drive thus raises the question of the " original " relations of the libido with narcissism, desexualisation and mastery. The author subsequently attempts to define the role of original repression and primary symbolisation.