Component Drives

sexuality, ordinarily thought of as a unity, was decomposed into a plurality of separate drives; and since it was tacitly assumed that sexuality originates in the genitals, Freud arrived at the conception of ‘erogenous zones,’ by which he meant the mouth, skin, anus, etc.

Jung traces precisely how Freud’s observation of infantile polymorphous-perverse sexuality forced the theoretical decomposition of unitary sexuality into component drives organized around erogenous zones.

Jung, C. G., Collected Works Volume 1: Psychiatric Studies, 1902thesis

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the discovery of a sexual fantasy-activity in childhood, which apparently had the effect of a trauma, led to the assumption that the child must have, in contradiction to all previous views, an almost fully developed sexuality, and even a polymorphous-perverse sexuality.

Jung situates the genesis of the component-drives doctrine in the clinical discovery of childhood sexual fantasy, establishing the developmental and traumatic context from which Freud’s theory of partial drives arose.

Jung, C.G., Collected Works Volume 4: Freud and Psychoanalysis, 1961supporting

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an incidental impulse, or a drive (Trieb), as it is called in psychoanalysis… a disposition, an enduring or even permanent tendency… What made you jump? to which you reply, A dog frightened me.

Ricoeur differentiates the psychoanalytic drive (Trieb) from other motivational categories — disposition, object-cause, emotion — situating component drives within a broader philosophical grammar of passivity and action.

Ricoeur, Paul, Oneself as Another, 1992supporting

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In the second year an upsurge of genital excitement, associated with the onset of a sensual-sexual motivational system, accounts for the emergence of infantile sexuality.

Schore’s neurobiological account of infantile sexuality describes the maturation of a distinct sensual-sexual motivational system, corroborating the developmental logic underlying Freud’s component-drives model.

Schore, Allan N., Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self: The Neurobiology of Emotional Development, 1994supporting

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Interoceptive signaling has been considered a component process of reflexes, urges, feelings, drives, adaptive responses, and cognitive and emotional experiences.

Contemporary interoception research lists drives among the component processes modulated by bodily signaling, offering a neuroscientific context tangentially relevant to the somatic basis of drive theory.

Khalsa, Sahib S., Interoception and Mental Health: A Roadmap, 2018aside

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Interoceptive signaling has been considered a component process of reflexes, urges, feelings, drives, adaptive responses, and cognitive and emotional experiences.

A duplicate passage reinforcing the neuroscientific framing of drives as component processes within interoceptive regulation, relevant to understanding somatic substrates of partial-drive activity.

Khalsa, Sahib S., Interoception and Mental Health: A Roadmap, 2018aside

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the emotive responses triggered by the engagement of drives, motivations, and emotions often constitute major perturbations of organism function and can result in major mental upheavals.

Damasio distinguishes drive-triggered emotive responses from sensory-qualia responses, implicitly acknowledging the distinctive force of drives as sources of major organismic perturbation relevant to depth-psychological drive theory.

Damasio, Antonio R., The strange order of things life, feeling, and the making, 2018aside

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