{"title":"Death Drive and Subjectivity.","authors":"José Jiménez Avello","doi":"10.1057/s11231-026-09569-2","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Following Freud's (1920) comment on the possibility of accepting or dismissing the death drive based on the subjectivity of the reader, arguments are presented from those of us who reject the supposed death drive, influenced by the consideration, among other things, of the subjective causes that may have led Freud to conceptualize it. In doing so, references are made to this line of thought as discussed by Ferenczi, and I add some personal (subjective, of course) reflections.</p>","PeriodicalId":52458,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":"305-316"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"American Journal of Psychoanalysis","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s11231-026-09569-2","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Psychology","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Following Freud's (1920) comment on the possibility of accepting or dismissing the death drive based on the subjectivity of the reader, arguments are presented from those of us who reject the supposed death drive, influenced by the consideration, among other things, of the subjective causes that may have led Freud to conceptualize it. In doing so, references are made to this line of thought as discussed by Ferenczi, and I add some personal (subjective, of course) reflections.
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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis is an international psychoanalytic quarterly founded in 1941 by Karen Horney. The journal''s purpose is to be an international forum for communicating a broad range of contemporary theoretical, clinical, professional and cultural concepts of psychoanalysis and for presenting related investigations in allied fields. It is a fully peer-reviewed journal, which welcomes psychoanalytic papers from all schools of thought that address the interests and concerns of scholars and practitioners of psychoanalysis and contribute meaningfully to the understanding of human experience. The journal publishes original papers, special issues devoted to a single topic, book reviews, film reviews, reports on the activities of the Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Center, and comments.