Death drive, between repetition and creation

Abstract

In order to delineate my reflections on the theme of this colloquium, which has the word pandemic in its title as well as suffering and death, I propose, as many colleagues have already done and will still do, to recapture the freudian notions about the death drive and the culture. At the same time, I will bring some elements to think about the pandemic as an Event, according to the conceptual apparatus given by Gilles Deleuze, in which the concept of death drive will also be fundamental, although entering into new compositions. If in Freud the death drive becomes central to understand aggression and repetition, Deleuze makes some conceptual torsions to associate it mainly with creation.