For 10 points, name thisphenomenon which is opposed to Eros, the life-producing drive.
One essay notes that the "premeditation" of this subject is the "premeditation of liberty," and opens witha quote from Cicero on the role of philosophy in relation to this subject. The first volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard's ("kuh-NOWS-gourds") My Struggle begins and ends with a discussion of this subject.Maurice Blanchot linked the act of writing and this subject in his concept of the "Neutral," and his best-known work is titled for "Literature and the Right to" this. The anthropologist Ernest Becker wrote a booktitled for the (*) "Denial" of this subject, which inspired a field of social psychology known as TerrorManagement Theory. In Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud argued that the super-ego forms as a result of thedrive toward this, which, along with the drive toward love, comprises the libido. For 10 points, name thisphenomenon which is opposed to Eros, the life-producing drive.
One essay notes that the "premeditation" of this subject is the "premeditation of liberty," and opens witha quote from Cicero on the role of philosophy in relation to this subject.
death [accept equivalents such as dying; accept "Literature and the Right to Death" and The Denial of Death; also accept thanatos or death drive, as well as mortality] 