The Metapsychology of the Empowerment drive and its original status
Creation; Empowerment; Domination; Metapsychology, Psychopathology
The proposal consists of a resumption of the expression used by Sigmund
Freud of the German term Bemachtigungstrieb and some of its variations. The objective
of this investigation has two central axes that constitute the Metapsychology of the
empowerment drive, first; we critically review the translation posed as the drive of
domination, which includes reductionisms of its specific action, defending a translational
position for the drive of empowerment, and the second, proposes a conceptual definition
for its action, designating the aspects of the creationist power elaborated through the third
time of the drive, named as passive, which, in short, aims at a type of self-doing, in the
direction of creating subjective existence enabling. Methodologically, we return to
Freud's work, using the teaching of Jacques Lacan and other theorists, starting from the
first group of psychoanalysts to contemporaries, to support the indicative position of its
appearance in the psychic constitution, up to the psychopathological manifestations. As
a result of the research, we developed a type of psychopathology framework of
empowerment, in the face of repetition and creation as theoretical-methodological
instruments to broaden the management of support for the conduction of treatment.