Date of Award
8-1999
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Counseling
Abstract
This Thesis examines and shows the relationship between Sigmund Freud's Death Instinct and Life Instinct Theories and their relation to the Existential concepts of Being and Non- Being. These intertheoretical concepts were interpreted in order for practitioners of Psychotherapy to be better acquainted with both concepts; so they may be better used in the mental health professions. A discussion of the two concepts as seen in Existential Psychotherapy and Freudian Psychoanalytic thought was presented and expanded upon and the relationship between the two was explained.
Recommended Citation
Miller, Ryan D., "Thanatos-Eros, Being-Non Being: Psychoanalytic - Existential Connection" (1999). Student Work. 66.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/studentwork/66
Comments
A Thesis Presented to the Department of Counseling and the Faculty of the Graduate College University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts University of Nebraska at Omaha.