Death drive: Eros and Thanatos in Wagner'sTristan und Isolde

Abstract

In their different ways, a series of Germanic artists and thinkers – the poet Novalis, the philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche, the father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud, and, most powerfully, composer Richard Wagner – all espoused at one point in their lives the view that death should not only be welcomed but ardently desired, even sought after as the final rest after a life of striving and suffering.

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Linda Hutcheon (1999). Death drive: Eros and Thanatos in Wagner'sTristan und Isolde. Cambridge Opera Journal. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954586700005073

@article{linda1999death,
  title  = {Death drive: Eros and Thanatos in Wagner'sTristan und Isolde},
  author = {Hutcheon, Linda},
  year   = {1999},
  journal = {Cambridge Opera Journal},
  doi    = {10.1017/s0954586700005073}
}

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