the death drive
writing project

This site is an index for and link to documents related to the project authored by David Bertolini and Don Kunze on 'the death drive'. The death drive is a complex of associative structures found in anthropology, ethnography, ancient and modern literature, philosophy, the arts, architecture, and the landscape. The project publication will provide a survey and analysis of this tradition by grounding it in the Lacanian idea of the interval 'between the two deaths', an interval or passage marked by 'partial objects' that are themselves significant in Lacan's theory of the oral, anal, scopic, and auditory drives. These markers of the limit of the subject's attempt to appropriate and control the world through 'organs' that project and secure the body in space and time involve topological 'knots' where imaginary passage beyond these limit involve an 'uncanny' reversal of normative temporal and spatial relationships.