The Death Drive of Symbolic Exchange

i'm kind of a anticipating here alittle, because i do want to get your thoughts on guateres kind of shift of the notion of death drive. Is it as simple as saying that his version of a kind of death drive may be the death drive of symbolic exchange? Or is that just now we're just using, obviously, the death drive gets used broadways?" That's a good question, because the source material for this is very different. I mean, there is the whole unpacking of psychoanalysis in symbolic exchange and death but that will take us very far afield if we stick to the anthropological content. And we can see so of what the point is. E