On Freud's 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle'
Mary Kay O'Neil, Salman Akhtar
ISBN: | 9781780492001 |
Publisher: | Karnac Books |
Published: | 3 February, 2011 |
Format: | ePub |
On Freud's 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle'
Mary Kay O'Neil, Salman Akhtar
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 some as a pseudo-biological speculation and rapturously espoused by others as a bold conceptual adva
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