ABSTRACT
The book concludes with the claim that Freud’s concept of the death drive must be reconsidered. The book does not aim to answer questions but to propose hypotheses, pose new questions and renew a debate that for the author has been largely ignored because it has been strictly connected to metapsychology, the controversial and partially unaccepted part of Freudian psychoanalysis. In this sense, the author argues, the death drive is an essential part of the human being’s unconscious life. She concludes by inviting a reassessment of Beyond the Pleasure Principle as a relevant, applicable and needed masterpiece, one with great bearing on the contemporary world, our need for objects and the decline of subjectivity in favour of the immediate satisfaction of pleasure.
