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death drives

death drives is the plural of death drive.

Meaning of death drive

Noun

death drive (plural death drives)

  1. The drive toward death and self-destruction.
    • The connection between the death drive and the symbolic order is a constant with Lacan, but we can differentiate the various stages of his teaching precisely by reference to the different modes of articulation of the death drive and the signifier: […]1989, Slavoj Žižek, Ernesto Laclau, The Sublime Object of Ideology, Verso, →ISBN, page 131

Questions about death drives

What is death drives the plural of?
Death drives is the plural of death drive.

Words near death drives in the dictionary

  1. death discs
  2. death diving
  3. death door
  4. death doors
  5. death drive
  6. death drives
  7. death duties
  8. death duty
  9. Death Eater
  10. Death Eaters
  11. death erection

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