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Is destruction or disruption the only way to break free from standardized structures? In 1912, psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein proposed a radical idea: destruction is not the opposite of creation, but its very engine. In her essay Destruction as the Cause of Coming Into Being, she suggested that the drive toward disintegration is essential to transformation. Later adopted and reinterpreted by Freud as the “death drive,” this concept challenges the idea that growth is purely additive. Instead, it reveals how undoing—of identity, of form, of meaning—is often a necessary condition for becoming. Lee Edelman, in No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, echoes this logic by arguing that the figure of the Child becomes an idolized surface for projecting societal fantasies of innocence, futurity, and continuity. Thus, for Edelman, the ‘death drive’ disrupts these fantasies, exposing the limits of reproductive time and identity coherence.
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Is destruction or disruption the only way to break free from standardized structures? In 1912, psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein proposed a radical idea: destruction is not the opposite of creation, but its very engine. In her essay Destruction as the Cause of Coming Into Being, she suggested that the drive toward disintegration is essential to transformation. Later adopted and reinterpreted by Freud as the “death drive,” this concept challenges the idea that growth is purely additive. Instead, it reveals how undoing—of identity, of form, of meaning—is often a necessary condition for becoming. Lee Edelman, in No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, echoes this logic by arguing that the figure of the Child becomes an idolized surface for projecting societal fantasies of innocence, futurity, and continuity. Thus, for Edelman, the ‘death drive’ disrupts these fantasies, exposing the limits of reproductive time and identity coherence.
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