The death drive in tourism studies

摘要: The psychoanalytical concept of the death drive postulated by Freud and Lacan refers to a constant force at junction between life death, which is not understood in biological sense physical demise body, nor opposition life. Tourist experiences conflict zones can be more critically through lens drive. Empirical data for this project draws on individual group interviews undertaken with tourists tourism industry representatives Jordan. Findings suggest that travelling area some negotiate embedded family memories archaic traumas. Accessing drive, also assert disrupt binaries such as fun/fear life/death.