The concept of the death drive: A clinic
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Kernberg, Otto (author)
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Article
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2009
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Institute of Psychoanalysis
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English
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This paper discusses Freud 's theory of the death drive in the light of clinical experience with severely self-destructive personality disorders, and contemporary object relations theory. Repetition compulsion, sadism and masochism, negative therapeutic reaction, suicide in depressed and in non-depr