Naslov
Freudova teorija tanatosa i koncept programirane stanične smrti
(The concept of programmed cell death and Freud's theory of thanatos)

Autori
Zurak, Niko ; Klain, Eduard

Izvornik
Neurologia Croatica (0353-8842) 48 (2-3) (1999), 2-3;

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, pregledni rad, pregledni

Ključne riječi
tanatos; programirana stanična smrt; apoptoza; psihološka reprezentacija; simbolička ekspresija
(thanatos; programmed cell death; apoptosis; psychological representation; symbolic expressionn)

Sažetak
In his paper "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" (1920), Sigmund Freund elaborated his theory on thanatos, death instinct, its main task being the organism s return to the inorganic state. According to Freud, a disintegrative instinct of elements in a highly compex biological molecule is immannently active from the very beginning, thus forming a substrate of autodestructive tendencies carried by the functional structure of the ego end superego.In the authors opinion, with the discovery of the existence of programmed cell death, current molecular biology has provided strong evidence supporting Freud' s theory. Historically, it could be stated that the concept of thanatos at the cellular level is the basic theoretical hypothesis that has anticipated the existence of programmed cell death. Cell death is a biological program, recognized as an active, physiologic, genetically encoded process.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Kliničke medicinske znanosti

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