The Death Drive, regarding the Real Where do we find the link between the Freudian death drive and the Lacanian Real? In this theoretical enquiry we follow the growing pains of the death drive and the Real in the writings of Freud and Lacan and the relationships between both. With Freud we examine where we can place the death drive in a theoretical framework. This search undoubtfully leads us to the constitution of the pleasure experience which is very hard to understand in relation to the death drive. We run into the trauma, which is the pleasuresome encounter with the Real. Secondly we concentrate upon the Lacanian elaboration of the death drive in the subjects genesis. Through this study we come to the Real as that enigmatic category which escapes every elaboration. This Real is then examined in combination with the death drive in an attempt to formulate both in an understandable relation. The Borromean Knot of the Real-Symbolic- Imaginary in masochism concludes this paper
