ABSTRACT
The previous chapter discussed how drives are intermediary between the soma and the body, and how the soma and body are inseparable instances that transform each other. In the following chapter, the question will be developed of whether the transformations that the soma and the body effect on each other transform the paths of the death drive as well. To delve into this question and get a better idea of what unrepresentability in bodies means, I will review specific facets of Freud’s theory of the death drive. Facets such as erogenous masochism and its relation to the death drive, repetition-compulsion as a derivative of the death drive, and the death drive’s manifestation as guilt.
