ABSTRACT
In 1994, the organizers of The Freudian Place in Jaffa, Israel, held a public discussion with Moshe Gershuni, who spoke of the way he works and the connection between his work and his life. S. Freud established the essential conflict that exists between the drives in life: the libido, which includes the inclination towards unity and pleasure, and the death drives, which work towards disintegration and destruction. Entropy according to Freud is connected more to fixation, to a fixated restriction, meaning non-movement. Jouissance is not exactly interested in survival—death can definitively be a part of it. That is why J. Lacan suggested that the pleasure principle puts a limit to jouissance. Fixation, which is situated in the heart of the symptom, indeed fixates the early relations but is also a focus of jouissance. When Georges Bataille considers the birth of art, he sees art not only as creation, but also as defacement, self-mutilation.
