The Concept of the Drive in Psychoanalysis (feat. Andrew Flores)

I am joined by Andrew Flores, a Lacanian psychoanalyst in formation and host of The Parallax Viewer to discuss the psychoanalytic concept of the drive. In this wide-ranging discussion, we introduce the four key elements that make up the drive, we discuss its pre-history before Freud, and we elaborate on its importance in psychoanalytic thought more generally.

SUGGESTED READINGS:

Works by Freud

Three Essays on Sexuality, Ch. 2 on "infantile sexuality"

Instincts and their Vicissitudes

Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Works by Lacan:

Seminar II chapters 3 and 4 Seminar IV chapters 2, 3, and 7 Seminar VII: chapter 7,8, and 9 Seminar XI section on the Drive and Partial drives Seminar XVI:  chapter 14, see "The Two Sides of Sublimation"

Other Work Mentioned:

Fred Moten, "Aunt Hester's Scream"

Philip Rieff, Freud, The Mind of the Moralist

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