1st Edition
On Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle
330 Pages
by
Routledge
330 Pages
by
Routledge
330 Pages
by
Routledge
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Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle constitutes a major landmark and a real turning point in the evolution of psychoanalytic theory. Pushing aside the primacy of the tension-discharge-gratification model of mental dynamics, this work introduced the notion of a "daemonic force" within all human beings that slowly but insistently seeks psychic inactivity, inertia, and death. Politely dismissed by... Read more
Contemporary Freud , Editors and Contributors , Introduction , Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920g) , Discussion of Beyond the Pleasure Principle , Jenseits and Beyond: Teaching Freud’s Late Work , Life and Death in Freudian Metapsychology: A Reappraisal of the Second Instinctual Dualism , An Unusual Manifestation of Repetition Compulsion in Traumatized Patients , The Dream in Beyond the Pleasure Principle and Beyond , Does the Death-Instinct-Based Theory of Aggression Hold Up? , The Concept of the Death Drive: A Clinical Perspective , Addiction to Near-Death , Manifestations of the Death Instinct in the Consulting Room , A Hindu Reading of Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle , The Trauma of Lost Love in Psychoanalysis , Epilogue
Biography
Salman Akhtar
