PTSD and the death drive

Freud’s speculations about the death drive (Todestrieb) are no longer accepted by most psychoanalysts. /1/ Yet, Freud’s thoughts about the death drive are worth considering from the perspective of trauma theory, since Freud regarded the inability of the traumatized to let their trauma pass into memory as the strongest evidence in favor of the death […] The post PTSD and the death drive first…