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- Title
GÜÇ İSTENCİ VS. ÖLÜM DÜRTÜSÜ YA DA NIETZSCHE FREUD'A İNDİRGENEBİLİR Mİ?
- Authors
ÜLGEN, Güncel Oğulcan
- Abstract
Sigmund Freud, throughout his life, has been somewhat ambivalent about his relationship with Friedrich Nietzsche, and he has frequently expressed his active avoidance of Nietzsche, claiming that he did not want to be influenced by him. However, in 1924, in a paper called The Economical Problem of Masochism, Freud in just one sentence ("The drive is then called the destructive drive, the drive for mastery, or the will to power") subtly tries to settle accounts with Nietzsche's metapsychology and the central concept of his metapsychology i.e., the will to power. According to Freud, Nietzsche's will to power corresponds to one of his two principles, the death drive. By trying to reduce the will to power to the death drive, Freud tries to overcome Nietzsche. In this paper, I will examine Freud's attempt at overcoming Nietzsche. Accordingly, first, I will trace Nietzsche's concept of will to power in the entirety of his corpus, starting with his concept of feeling of power. After I have shown that the will to power can be interpreted as a metapsychological concept, I will go through Freud's drive theory to understand the similarities and differences between the will to power and the death drive. Thus, I wish to see if one can be reduced to the other or not. Consequently, I will argue that instead of trying to reduce the will to power to the death drive, we should do the opposite and see the death drive as one of the expressions of the will to power, for this is a more precise, fruitful and efficient interpretation. Hence, I will end my paper by posing a question which I think will expand our horizons about the will to power and the death drive: "why does the will to power express itself as the death drive?"
- Subjects
NIETZSCHE, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900; FREUD, Sigmund, 1856-1939; METAPSYCHOLOGY; MASOCHISM; PSYCHOANALYSIS; CORPORA
- Publication
Academic Journal of Philosophy / Felsefi Düşün, 2022, Issue 18, p172
- ISSN
2148-0958
- Publication type
Article