Capitalism and the Death Drive

Capitalism and the Death Drive
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What we call growth today is in fact a tumorous growth, a cancerous proliferation which is disrupting the social organism. These tumours endlessly metastasize and grow with an inexplicable, deadly vitality. At a certain point this growth is no longer productive, but rather destructive. Capitalism passed this point long ago. Its destructive forces cause not only ecological and social catastrophes but also mental collapse. The destructive compulsion to perform combines self-affirmation and self-destruction in one. We optimize ourselves to death. Brutal competition ends in destruction. It produces an emotional coldness and indifference towards others as well as towards one’s own self. The devastating consequences of capitalism suggest that a death drive is at work. Freud initially introduced the death drive hesitantly, but later admitted that he ‘couldn’t think beyond it’ as the idea of the death drive became increasingly central to his thought. Today, it is impossible to think about capitalism without considering the death drive.

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Byung-Chul Han. Capitalism and the Death Drive

CONTENTS

Guide

Pages

Capitalism and the Death Drive

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Capitalism and the Death Drive

NOTES

Why Revolution Is Impossible Today

NOTES

The Total Exploitation of the Human Being

NOTES

Inside the Digital Panopticon

NOTES

Only What Is Dead Is Transparent

NOTES

Dataism and Nihilism

Torturous Emptiness

NOTES

Jumping Humans

NOTES

Where Do the Refugees Come From?

NOTES

Where the Wild Things Are

NOTES

Who Is a Refugee?

NOTES

Beauty Lies Yonder, in the Foreign1

NOTES

The Big Rush

NOTES

In Your Face: How the Arts are Turning into Pornography. Or: On the Compulsion to Get Down to it, Without Seduction

NOTES

The End of Liberalism: The Coronavirus Pandemic and Its Consequences

It Is Eros That Defeats Depression

NOTES

Capitalism Dislikes Silence

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COVID-19 Has Reduced Us to a ‘Society of Survival’

‘I Am Sorry, But These Are the Facts’

NOTES

POLITY END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT

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Byung-Chul Han

Translated by Daniel Steuer

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Adalbert von Chamisso’s novella Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte [The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl] can be read as an allegory of the capitalist economy. Schlemihl sells his shadow to the devil in return for a bottomless bag of gold (that is, infinite capital). The pact with the devil turns out to be a pact with capitalism. Infinite capital makes the shadow – which stands for the body and death – disappear. But Schlemihl soon realizes that a life without a shadow is impossible. He walks the earth as the undead. The moral is: death is a part of life. The story thus ends with this admonition: ‘But you, my friend, if you want to live among mankind, learn to revere first your shadow, and then your money.’16

Capitalism is obsessed with death. The unconscious fear of death is what spurs it on. The threat of death is what stirs its compulsion of accumulation and growth. This compulsion drives us towards not only ecological but also mental catastrophe. The destructive compulsion to perform combines self-affirmation and self-destruction in one. We optimize ourselves to death. Relentless self-exploitation leads to mental collapse. Brutal competition ends in destruction. It produces an emotional coldness and indifference towards others as well as towards one’s own self.

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