Thursday, January 21, 2021
7:00PM – 9:00PM CST
Zoom Presentation
*Pre-Registration required for Zoom invitation
Registration Fees (CEUs included)
Members: Free
Non-Members: $50
This presentation is a wide investigation of many topics relating to Freud’s theory that there is a powerful destructive and annihilating instinct that rivals the libido, or Eros. When Freud first proposed a death instinct on biological, psychological, and even philosophical grounds, he called it a “speculation.” But as tragedy piled on tragedy and trauma on trauma, this initial speculation hardened in his mind into an inescapable, inevitable law.
OBJECTIVES
- Explain why and how Sigmund Freud came to formulate his theory of a Death Instinct.
- Describe why and how, after rejecting it for many decades, psychoanalysts are finding the concept of a death instinct clinically and culturally useful.