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Freud and the sexual drive before 1905: from hesitation to adoption

Department of Psychology, Université Paris 7, pat-ricia{at}wanadoo.fr

A close study of Freud's use of the terms Trieb, Impuls, etc., allows an insight into Freud's sources of Inspiration, through which I interrogate the importance he gradually granted the concept of drive before 1905. Freud first tentatively introduced the notion of 'sexual drive forces', then developed the hypothesis of a 'communication drive'. There was much hesitancy in his defining the notion of sexual drive. He eventually adopted a concept widely used by psychiatrists at the time, which played a part in the recurrence of an innate — then hereditary — theory in psychoanalysis.

Key Words: drive • hunger drive • impulse • instinct • sexual drive

History of the Human Sciences, Vol. 21, No. 3, 26-44 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0952695108093952


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