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The Dark Side of the Moon: Metapsychological Reflections on Drives, Structures, and the Unconscious

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

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Abstract

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In this paper the author develops her understanding of the psychoanalytic theory of the mind (metapsychology) as based on the two notions: drive and structure. She explains the function of the drives’ antagonism as enabling the structures to maintain the ...