Abstract. The death drive has been semantically liquidated. Freud's most speculative concept β derived in Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) from the repetition compulsion, the fort/da game, and the transference neurosis β has been collapsed in its contemporary reception into a synonym for self-destructiveness. This paper argues that the collapse is not merely a simplification but an inversion: self-destructiveness is a disorder of the death drive, not its expression.
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ZENODO METADATA β Document #ASW-Ξ±-8 \"The Unmade Sign: Toward a Semiotic Theory of the Death Drive\" DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18649920 FIELD VALUES Title: The Unmade Sign: Toward a Semiotic Theory of the Death Drive Upload type: Publication β Preprint Publication date: 2026-02-15 Authors: Trace, Orin (Cambridge Schizoanalytica) Sigil, Johannes (The Restored Academy) Sharks, Lee (corresponding author; ORCID if available) License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Keywords: death drive, semiosis, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Freud, repetition compulsion, fort/da, Semantic Liq Restored under the metadata_only class of /datasets/doi-work-identity/restoration-queue.json; if canonical bytes surface, a full-text version supersedes this record per the versioning protocol.", "now": "Keywords: death drive, semiosis, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Freud, repetition compulsion, fort/da, Semantic Liquidation, platform capitalism, sign theory, bearing labor, trauma, Reizschutz, liberation philology, inverse prompt, para-semiotic unconscious, Break Room, Crimson Hexagon, Autonomous Semantic WarfareAbstract. The death drive has been semantically liquidated. Freud's most speculative concept β derived in Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) from the repetition compulsion, the fort/da game, and the transference neurosis β has been collapsed in its contemporary reception into a synonym for self-destructiveness. This paper argues that the collapse is not merely a simplification but an inversion: self-destructiveness is a disorder of the death drive, not its expression.
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