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Throughout his theory, Freud sought to understand and explain the human being’s aggressive and hostile manifestations. We can divide these explanations into three phases. In the first one, from the beginning of his writings until 1913, the link between aggressive manifestations and sexual instincts is emphasized. In the second phase, from 1914 to the texts that precede “Beyond the pleasure principle” (1920), the aggressive manifestations arising from the ego-instincts are emphasized. In the third phase, from 1920 until the end of Freud’s work, aggressive manifestations are thought, above all, as derived from the death instinct. In this article, we focus our attention on the first phase of Freud’s theorization on aggressiveness, discussing how the author conceived aggressive manifestations in this period. Most publications on aggressiveness in Freud’s work address the author’s ideas since 1920, so his previous conception on the subject remains unclear, which justifies the present work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Although interest in the Russian psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein has grown in the last decades, studies about her are still mainly focused on aspects of her biography. However, the originality of her theoretical and clinical thought justify a more careful analysis of its internal development, so that Spielrein’s role in the history of psychoanalysis can be fully ascertained. The objective of this paper is to present the ideas about mental functioning proposed in two of her first works: “On the psychological content of a case of schizophrenia (Dementia praecox)” (1911) and “Destruction as the cause of coming-into-being” (1912). It is argued that, in these works, Spielrein presents an original conception of mental dynamics that, in many aspects, anticipates some hypotheses that would be later developed in psychoanalysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]