Abstract
Although the question of death features in Freud’s earliest writings, this moves centre-stage in the two key papers discussed in this chapter: Mourning and Melancholia (Freud, [1917] 1991) and Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Freud, [1920] [1991]). Today, when the almost inevitable response to depression is medication, it is some comfort that Freud’s insights have been revived (e.g. Leader, 2009) for an audience in search of movement beyond numbness.
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Desmond, J. (2013). Death. In: Psychoanalytic Accounts of Consuming Desire. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137289087_5
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