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Sex and Death/ Eros and Thanatos

TransverseAlchemy Posted on February 14, 2011 by CharlieJune 26, 2016

There is little question that our greatest drives are to reproduce and to avoid death. Freud and Foucault argued that the two are fused, that the death instinct pervades sexual activity— a connection simply recognized  in the French term la petit mort.

 Freud believed that humans were driven by two conflicting central desires: the life drive (libido/Eros) and the death drive (Thanatos).  Cathexis is defined as the process of the conscious investment of mental or emotional energy into a person, object or idea, and includes all creative, life-producing drives. The death drive, with the energy of  anticathexis, represents the unconscious urge inherent in all living things to return to a state of calm: in other words, an inorganic or dead state.

 He approached the paradox between the Eros and Thanatos by defining pleasure and unpleasure. According to Freud, unpleasure refers to excessive stimulus that the body receives: excessive friction on the skin produces a burning sensation. Conversely, pleasure is a result of a decrease in stimuli: a gentle caress produces a calming effect, even though it still produces friction. If pleasure increases as stimuli decreases, then the ultimate experience of pleasure for Freud would be zero stimulus, or death.

On the one hand, the life drive promotes survival by avoiding extreme unpleasure and any threat to life: on the other, the death drive functions simultaneously toward extreme pleasure, which leads to death.

 

 Physically we have the greatest resistance to harmful environmental factors during the period of our greatest reproductive capacity. Evolution has little interest in the survival of those who are in the post-reproductive period of life.

 Evolution triggers Death with Sex.


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