1. Una nota sull'articolo di Mark Solms.
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Kernberg, Otto F.
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CONFLICT (Psychology) , *PSYCHOBIOLOGY , *MOTIVATION (Psychology) , *PSYCHOANALYSIS , *LIBIDO - Abstract
In the paper "Revision of drive theory" (Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane, 2022, 56, 3: 363-422) Mark Solms (2021a) correctly argues that the basic motivational forces are affect systems, activated following the general homeostatic principles that govern biological processes that assure survival and reproduction. However, psychoanalytic object relation theory points to a specifically human, supraordinate integrative motivational system that condenses component affect systems into the affiliative and counteraffiliative motivations described by Freud with the concepts of libido and aggression. They are not "drives" in the psychobiological sense, but profoundly define unconscious intrapsychic conflict and are relevant in clinical psychoanalysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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