Abstract
Nicole Gabriel, Eros and the death drive in Don Juan come back from war The present article puts forward an interpretation of Hovarth's play Don Juan comes back from war based on the theory of drives as reelaborated by Freud after World War I, a development which he had already been anticipating in a previous text, The Theme of the three caskets, which several features in Hovarth's play recall The era that opened in the post war years, the joyless era of the death drive, also ushered in the impossibility of narrative since the reality of human experience was called into question. The historical subject vanished behind an experience that it could neither apprehend nor transmit.
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