Methapsychology and theory of culture: a possible encounter?

Abstract

The fact that the theory of pulsions turned out to be the result of speculative material leads Freud to look critically and doubt the validiry of his hypotheses. Death pulsion presents to the psychoanalysis founder as a complex problem when compared to Eros. The activities from the later group of pulsions are easier to grasp than those of Thanarus. From death pulsions only silence is apprehended, announces Freud in Civilizationand its  discontents (1930). However, the absence of targets and fixed objects of death pulsion does not seem to imply in the inexistence of manifestations or effects. With this work, we intend to argue that it is fundamentally by meansof its exteriorization, as destructive pulsion, that the death pulsion will insinuare itself. And above all, it is in there alms of culture and intersubjective relations that in will chiefly come out, putting together elements to call for its universality.