What is it about?
The paper criticizes Freud's death drive through Nietzsche's idea of the will to power and suggests that it is better be understood as a will to truth.
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Why is it important?
It rejects Freud's paradoxical conclusion in "beyond the pleasure principle" that the goal of life is death while preserving the dialectical nature of the psyche as it is presented in Freud's essay.
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This page is a summary of: The Will to Truth, the Death Drive and the Will to Power, The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, February 2020, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1057/s11231-020-09230-6.
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