title: [Death and neurosis. Anxiety, the death instinct, object loss and narcissism as the background of the human experience of death].
abstract: The present study gives an overview of concepts which try to explain the meaning of death in neurosis. Phenomenological-anthropological and psychoanalytic approaches are drawn into consideration. After an introductory phenomenological description the significance of death in symptomatology, in the inducing situation and in psychodynamic is discussed. The attempts to integrate the phenomenon of death into psychoanalytic metapsychology are represented by means of drive theory and objectrelation-theory. In the "anthropological-integrative" concept of death (D. Wyss) death is proved in the experience of time and separation. D. Wyss emphasized the connection between the experience of death on one side and the development of reflection or the process of structuring consciousness on the other side. Experience of time, separation and thinking are closely related with anxiety which may become another keyword for understanding the meaning of death. Finally the author discusses the question whether Narcissistic Neurosis and Narcissistic Personality Disorders could be connected with the unsolved death problem or a denial of death. The "narcissistic human being" is described as someone who is thrown back on himself because he is not able to cope with his basic anxieties, his limitations and his transitoriness.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D001293:Attitude to Death; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D004328:Drive; D006801:Humans; D007046:Hysteria / Q000523:psychology; D009289:Narcissism; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D009769:Object Attachment; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory
vernacular_title: Tod und Neurose. Angst, Todestrieb, Objektverlust und Narzissmus auf dem Hintergrund humaner Todeserfahrung.