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Di Leo and Paul Allen Miller. The book frames psychoanalytic and critical debates around topics such as ontology beyond the pleasure principle, the relation to trauma and grammar breakdown, and the afterlife of the death drive across poetics and politics. Essays connect Freud and later theory to issues of language, automation, queerness, cruelty, and ressentiment, including readings that extend toward Hegel, Baudrillard, Lacan, Derrida, and Fanon.","Te Death Drive  \nTe Death Drive:  \nPhilosophy, Literature, Teory  \nEdited by  \nJefrey R. Di Leo and Paul Allen Miller  \nBLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC  \nBloomsbury Publishing Plc, 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK  \nBloomsbury Publishing Inc, 1359 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, USA Bloomsbury Publishing Ireland, 29 Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, D02 AY28, Ireland BLOOMSBURY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc  \nFirst published in Great Britain 2026 Copyright © Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Paul Allen Miller, 2026 Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Paul Allen Miller have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identifed as Authors of this work.  \nFor legal purposes the Acknowledgments on p. viii constitute an extension of this copyright page.  \nCover image: Visage via Getty Images  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be: i) reproduced or transmitted in any form, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by means of any information storage or retrieval system without prior permission in writing from the publishers; or ii) used or reproduced in any way for the training, development or operation of artifcial intelligence (AI) technologies, including generative AI technologies. The rights holders expressly reserve this publication from the text and data mining exception as per Article 4(3) of the Digital Single Market Directive (EU) 2019/790 .  \nBloomsbury Publishing Plc does not have any control over, or responsibility for, any thirdparty websites referred to or in this book. All internet addresses given in this book were correct at the time of going to press. The author and publisher regret any inconvenience caused if addresses have changed or sites have ceased to exist, but can accept no responsibility for any such changes.  \nA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.  \nA catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.  \nISBN: HB: 978-1-3504-6567-1  \nePDF: 978-1-3504-6568-8  \neBook: 978-1-3504-6569-5  \nTypeset by Deanta Global Publishing Services, Chennai, India  \nFor product safety related questions contact [productsafety@bloomsbury.com](productsafety@bloomsbury.com).  \nTo fnd out more about our authors and books visit [www.bloomsbury.com](www.bloomsbury.com) and sign up for our newsletters.  \nTo our colleagues at the Society for Critical Exchange in gratitude for their commitment to the free exchange of ideas.  \nContents  \nAcknowledgments viii  \nIntroduction: Te Death Drive Jefrey R. Di Leo and Paul Allen Miller 1  \nPart I Freud on the Death Drive—Philosophical Readings  \n1 Take It to the Limit: Ontology beyond the Pleasure Principle  \nPaul Allen Miller 23  \n2 Baudrillard on the Death Drive Jefrey R. Di Leo 39  \n3 Trauma and the Breakdown of All Grammars: Listening to the Wound as Voice María del Rosario Acosta López 59  \n4 Death’s Drive in Hegel and Freud Shannon M. Mussett 75  \n5 Aristotle’s Erotic Sublime? Emanuela Bianchi 89  \nPart II Poetics ofthe Death Drive—Literary Connections  \n6 Moral Masochism, Sexuality, and the Death Drive: Freud and Late  \nJames David Greven 109  \n7 Elegy, Queerness, and the Lacanian Death Drive Sara H. Lindheim 125  \n8 Reading beyond the Death Drive: Living Phantasms Daniel T. O’Hara 139  \n9 Death—Automation—Language Adriana Michele Campos Johnson 151  \n10 Antigone’s Gaza Mario Telò 165  \nPart III Critique of the Death Drive—Teoretical Confrontations  \n11 Te Queer Life of Auto-repugnancy in Freud Penelope Deutscher 185  \n12 Labor and Desire Peter Hitchcock 203  \n13 Derrida’s Cruelty Drive Brian O’Keefe 217  \n14 Black Ressentiment and the Politics of the Death Drive: A Fanonian  \nMeditation Zahi Zalloua 233  \n15 Paraontology and the Death Drive Nicole Simek 247  \nNotes on Contributors 261  \nIndex 265  \nAcknowledgments  \nWe would like to thank the contributors to this volume for sharing their essays and insights with us. 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