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The sudden appearance of the term "desexualization" in The Ego and the Id is considered as a marker of the subtle, almost unnoticeable changes that occurred in Freud's thinking after 1920. The strict dichotomy between life and death drives posed a series of new problems that force Freud to invoke a "desexualized libido" in order to restore some fluidity in the psychic apparatus. But the mechanism of desexualization was difficult to describe and Freud seems to resort to a circular explanation. In the end, the restored dialectics between Eros and the death drive, thanks to desexualization, force Freud to invoke a split in the ego itself.
在《自我与本我》(The Ego and the Id)一书中突然出现的 "去性欲化"(desexualization)一词,被认为是弗洛伊德思想在 1920 年之后发生的微妙、几乎难以察觉的变化的标志。生与死驱动力之间严格的二分法带来了一系列新问题,迫使弗洛伊德援引 "去性化的性欲",以恢复心理机制的某种流动性。但去性欲化的机制难以描述,弗洛伊德似乎诉诸了一种循环论证的解释。最后,由于去性欲化,爱神与死亡驱力之间恢复了辩证关系,这迫使弗洛伊德援引自我本身的分裂。
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