Savvopoulos, Savvas

Contemporary culture and death drives - 2020.


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Following Freud, it is important to examine the analogy between the clinic and the sociocultural phenomena that influence the psyche-soma entity, which is what Marty emphasized in psychosomatic investigation. In an unstable environment, the individual may regress or become disorganized, which can lead to an unbalancing of the super-ego/ego ideal pairing and the re-emergence of the ideal ego, with the consequence of cutting the psyche from the body. In this de-psychization, which makes the subject vulnerable, we can see the impact of the death drive in its destructive form.