The narcissism and the 1920's "turning point": an investigation into the role of the concept at the reformulations of the drive theory and the psychic topography in Freud

• Grant number: 18/09039-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: November 01, 2018
• End date: August 31, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: Ana Carolina Soliva Soria
• Grantee: Munique Gaio Filla
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

It has been recurring to conceive the 1920s as a "turning point" in Freud's thought. This was marked by two main factors - one of them, the transition from the first drive dualism to the second theory of the drives, through the rearticulation of the conflict between ego drives or drives of self-preservation and sexual drives, that gives room to the combat between life drives and death drives; the other factor, the reformulation of the psychic topography, formerly centered on the distinction between the unconscious, preconscious and conscious systems, through the emergence of the psychic agencies id, ego and super-ego. Considering this, the present study intends to investigate the role of narcissism, introduced conceptually in 1914, as one of the triggers of these so relevant changes at freudian theory. The hypothesis is that narcissism is a significant agent, although not exclusive, concerning the theoretical trajectory of Freud towards such modifications. (AU)