Eros and thanatos in Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

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1. Eros and Thanatos In The Sense Of an Ending by Julian Barnes Name -: Parmar Milankumar Roll no. -: 14 Enrollment no. -: Pg14101026 Course no. -: New Literature Email -: [email protected] Submitted to -: Department of English Smt.S.B . Gardi M.K.B . University

2. Introduction Julian Patrick Barnes Born- 17 January 1946 “The Sense of an Ending” Publication 2011 The Man Booker Prize- 2011

3. Eros and Thanatos – Greek Myth Eros – denotes romantic or intimate love, god of love, desire, sex. Thantos - In G reek mythology was demon personification of death. Minor figure in Greek Mythology

4. Eros and Thanatos in Psychology Sigmund Freud was leading figure in psychology. ..remembered for his work and studies on the human mind, Conscious and unconscious mind. To explain all human behaviors he described two major classes of drives known as life instincts and death instincts.

5. Instincts/ drive An impulse that originates in the body and is transferred to mind: drives actions. Instincts are “the representative of all the forces originating in the interior of the body and transmitted to the mental apparatus” There are numbers of instincts or drives for e.g. including basic instincts hunger, sex, thirst, and self-preservation, aggression or death instincts.

6. Eros Drive for survival, life instinct, pleasure, reproduction, and basic instincts like sex hunger and thirst. These elements are necessary to preserve life Energy created by life instinct is also known as Libido “The drive to preserve living substance and bring it together in larger unit .” Eros is associated with behaviors that supports harmony among people such as love, collaboration and cooperation.

7. Thantos counter part of Eros, Eros and Thanatos are both help define one another in that one is ‘not the other.’ drive to return to state of calm or dead state. It includes..negative feelings like hate, anger and aggression. It is associated with anti-social behavior. “Born to die”, it drives human to engage in activities that bring them closer to death ………..cont...

8. for instance – Murder, suicide, war. “the goal of all life is death” After traumatic experience people hold an unconscious desire to die, but our Eros are stronger than Thanatos thus enabling people to survive rather than self destruction/Suicide. Eros and Thanatos interact and one can turn into the other such as flipping of love and hate, crying and laughter, what preserve life is by death of something else.

9. Eros and Thanatos in The Sense of an Ending References in Text ‘Eros and Thanatos , sir.’-Adrian Adrian-‘Sex and death,’ ‘Or love and death, if you prefer. The erotic principle, in any case, coming into conflict with the death principle. And what ensues from that conflict.(Barnes, 2011) Robson of the Science Sixth had passed away during the weekend. ‘ Thanatos wins again.’ ‘First-class degree, first class suicide,’

10. But I think I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation. Perhaps this is what Veronica called cowardice and I called being peaceable. I have a certain instinct for self-preservation. I successfully put Veronica out of my mind, out of my history. ‘Insurance company’ preserve a self. Giving books to ill people in hospital

11. Work cited Barnes, J. (2011). The Sense of an Ending. In J. Barnes, The Sense of an Ending (pp. 12-70). London , Great Britan : Random House ebooks . Freudsigmand.blogspot.in/2010/11/freudian-sleeps.html Study.com/academy/lesson/eros-life-instinct-definition-lesson-quiz.html http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_drive

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