Dal desiderio al disinvestimento: è davvero l'epoca delle passioni tristi? Riflessioni sulla psicoanalisi contemporanea e la pulsione di morteFrom desire to disinvestment: is this really the age of sad passions? Reflections on contemporary psychoanalysis and the death drive

The article deals with the psychic phenomenon of disinvestment, taking its cue from the evocative title of a well-known essay, from a psychoanalytical point of view, giving a definition and providing an in-depth review of the Freudian text to which it goes back in Beyond the Pleasure Principle of 1920, then tracing its clinical repercussions and the vast current socio-cultural impact. The work intends to hypothesize how much the Freudian text, which caused the turning point of '20 in psychoanalysis by introducing the concept of 'death drive', is today particularly topical today in the sneaky and socially approved extension of clinical-social forms of disinvestment, according to a spectrum from drug addiction to the absence of desire on every object. It prefigures the post-modern clinic as a clinic of the death drive, Freudianly understood not as agitated aggressiveness but as the search for non-thought and non-stress. It is the object of conclusive questions as to what and if psychoanalysis can still play a role in all this.