ABSTRACT
The relations between drive fusion and defusion provide a good indication of the way in which the life drives and the death drives have succeeded in blending together internally, giving coherence to their union and according a certain homogeneity to the psychical organization. Sometimes, both of these drives live in a state of mutual coexistence, without interpenetration, and without imposing tensions on the mind that are too disorganizing. It looks as if the work of unbinding continues as far as the id, succeeding in dividing the two groups of drives and accentuating the defusion between erotic or libidinal impulses under the stamp of Eros and the destructive impulses marked by hate. Ultimately, when the work of defusion carries the day, it is the destructive impulses that prevail and the forces of defusion that dominate. But when defusion prevails, the cohesion of the psychic structure is weakened, and the field left to destructiveness is increasingly extensive.
