The dual impact of Freud’s death, and Freud’s death instinct theory, on the history of psychoanalysis

This paper is submitted for public consideration with the feeling that it is both important and likely to arouse controversy. I also have a feeling of “belatedness” that this topic should have been discussed much earlier at some international congress, and the failure to do so has handicapped the development of psychoanalysis. What I am suggesting is that we submit the psychoanalytic movement and some important aspects of its history to psychoanalytic scrutiny.