On Freud's "Beyond the pleasure principle"
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Published
London : Karnac Books, 2011.
ISBN
9781849407090, 1849407096
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1 online resource (xvi, 312 pages).
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Published
London : Karnac Books, 2011.
Format
ONLINE
Language
English
ISBN
9781849407090, 1849407096
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-294) and index.
Description
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 advance, "death instinct" became a stepping stone to the latter conceptualizations of mind's attacks o.
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Digital Library - Digital Library Ebsco ebook | 150.19/52 | Available Online |