ABSTRACT
This part conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters. The part suggests that there is an important and complicated connection between the death-drive and addiction. The death-drive is a concept that separates Sigmund Freud from most of the post-Freudian writers. The death-drive was an extremely important concept for Freud in order to make sense of certain experiences and aspects of human life. Freud kept hoping for the existence of a more perfect pleasure principle. Freud's hope for a pleasure principle that would do its work properly continued, even after he introduced the death-drive into his theory. What disturbs the pleasure principle is the death-drive. Masturbation continued to be important for Freud's thinking on pleasure; at this stage in his work it highlighted the problem of a short cut between desire and fulfilment.
