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Thanatos-Eros, Being-Non Being: Psychoanalytic - Existential Connection, Ryan D. Miller
Thanatos-Eros, Being-Non Being: Psychoanalytic - Existential Connection, Ryan D. Miller
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This Thesis examines and shows the relationship between Sigmund Freud's Death Instinct and Life Instinct Theories and their relation to the Existential concepts of Being and Non- Being. These intertheoretical concepts were interpreted in order for practitioners of Psychotherapy to be better acquainted with both concepts; so they may be better used in the mental health professions. A discussion of the two concepts as seen in Existential Psychotherapy and Freudian Psychoanalytic thought was presented and expanded upon and the relationship between the two was explained.