Author(s)

Huaan Wang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Guangzhou Huashang College, Guangzhou, 511399, China

Corresponding Author

Huaan Wang

ABSTRACT

Freud re-defined Eros as first, it makes the relationship between sex and sexual organs no longer so close. This text attempts to illustrate Dorigo's lifetime's deconstruction of the ill-conditioned civilization for Eros from the perspective of life instinct and death instinct and uncover his nihilism. Freud considers sex as a more extensive physical function, first of all it aims at pleasure and secondly it serves the reproduction. Second, it sees sexual impulses as including all pure feelings and compulsions of affection, that is, those impulses usually referred to by the very ambiguous word 'love'. Under the dominance of pleasure principle, we exerts our life instinct and death instinct to run for Eros, which could never be obtained until we die and break at the end of the disappearing circle demonstrates. The circle is a dynamic and endless circle with contained void which symbolizes life's nihilism as people live to death since we were born.

KEYWORDS

Life instinct death, instinct civilization, deconstruction nihilism, ill-conditioned civilization for Eros

CITE THIS PAPER

Huaan Wang, An Analysis of the Narrow Road to the Deep North from the Perspective of Life Instinct and Death Instinct. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2023) Vol. 6: 25-30. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2023.060205.

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