The work of Slavoj Žižek contains arguably the most conceptually ambitious re-articulation of the Lacanian notion of the death drive. This paper offers an expository thread joining many of the fragmentary depictions of the death drive in Žižek's work. I begin by tracing the most counter-intuitive aspects of Žižek's re-articulations of the concept. Opposing the notions of death drive as biological instinct, cosmic principle, Nirvana-like release, and self-annihilating impulse, Žižek highlights instead the Lacanian notions of repetition automatism, excess negativity, ‘undead’ eternal life, and symbolic mortification. Žižek provides useful applications of a series of related Lacanian ideas – the lamella, the zone between two deaths, and the ethical dimension of the death drive – and extends these via a set of philosophical conceptualizations (self-relating negativity, negative inherence, death drive as non-historicizable). The last section of the paper explores how the notion of self-relating negativity allo...

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象征性的设防和“亡灵生活”：死亡驱动器上的斯拉沃伊·齐泽克

斯拉沃伊·齐泽克（SlavojŽižek）的作品可以说是拉康主义关于死亡驱动力概念的最概念上雄心勃勃的重新表达。本文提供了一个说明性线索，连接了齐泽克作品中许多关于死亡驱动力的零碎描述。首先，我将追溯Žižek重新表达这一概念的最违反直觉的方面。Žižek反对以生物本能，宇宙原理，类似涅磐的释放和自我毁灭的冲动来驱动死亡，相反，齐齐克强调了拉康主义的重复自动性，过度否定性，“不死”的永生和象征性的贬低。Žižek提供了一系列相关的拉加尼亚思想的有用应用-薄板，两次死亡之间的区域，以及死亡驱动力的道德层面–并通过一系列哲学概念化（自我相关的否定性，否定的内在性，死亡驱动力不可历史化）进行扩展。本文的最后一部分探讨了自相关负性的概念是如何分配...