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The Death Instinct and Its Vicissitudes
Abstract
Reconsidering the usefulness of the concept “death instinct” in clinical work,
this paper concludes that it is useful in consoling the mourners of a suicide
and in aiding the therapist to wait when the patient does not show up, but
should not be used to foreclose exploration of fantasies about death.
Keywords
death drive, death instinct, death fantasy, therapeutic usefulness
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