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Eros - Beyond the Death Drive (Paperback)
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Eros considers a promise left unfulfilled in Sigmund Freud's Beyond
the Pleasure Principle. Rosaura Martinez Ruiz argues that when the
pleasure principle comes into contact with the death drive (the
human tendency toward aggression or cruelty), the psyche can take
detours that, without going beyond the limit of the pleasure
principle, can nevertheless defer it. Eros reflects on these
deviations of the pleasure principle, in the political sphere and
in the intimate realm. Following these erotic paths, Martinez
argues that the forces of the death drive can only be resisted if
resistance is understood as an ongoing process. In such an effort,
erotic action and the construction of pathways for sublimation are
never-ending ethical and political tasks. We know that these tasks
cannot be finally accomplished, yet they remain imperative and
undeniably urgent. If psychoanalysis and deconstruction teach us
that the death drive is insurmountable, through aesthetic creation
and political action we can nevertheless delay, defer, and postpone
it. Calling for the formation and maintenance of a "community of
mourning duelists," this book seeks to imagine and affirm the kind
of "erotic battalion" that might yet be mobilized against
injustice. This battalion's mourning, Martinez argues, must be
ongoing, open-ended, combative, and tenaciously committed to the
complexity of ethical and political life.
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