- Paperback: 98 pages
- Publisher: Martino Fine Books (June 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1578989264
- ISBN-13: 978-1578989263
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 14.7 x 1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,521,019 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Reprint 2010 of 1922 edition. Beyond the Pleasure Principle marked a turning point and a major modification of Freud's previous theoretical approach. Before this essay, Freud was understood to have placed the sexual instinct, Eros, centre stage, in explaining the forces which drive us to act. In 1920, going "beyond" the simple pleasure principle, Freud developed his theory of drives, by adding the death instinct, often referred to as Thanatos, although Freud himself never used this term.The main importance of the essay resides in the striking picture of human beings struggling between two opposing instincts or drives: Eros working for creativity, harmony, sexual connection, reproduction, and self-preservation; Thanatos for destruction, repetition, aggression, compulsion, and self-destruction. Freud also took the opportunity to state the basic differences, as he saw them, between his approach and that of Carl Jung, and covered the history so far of research into the basic drives.
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FREUD'S ORIGINATION OF THE NOTION OF A "DEATH INSTINCT", Aug 13 2010
By Steven H. Propp - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Beyond the Pleasure Principle-First Edition Text (Paperback)
Freud wrote this book in 1920. Here are some representative quotations from the book:"(T)he course of those (mental) events is invariably set in motion by an unpleasurable tension, and that it takes a direction such that its final outcome coincides with a lowering of that tension---that is, with an avoidance of unpleasure or a production of pleasure."
"If we take into account observations such as these, we shall find courage to assume that there really does exist in the mind a compulsion to repeat which overrides the pleasure principle."
"If we are to take it as a truth that knows no exceptions that everything living dies for INTERNAL reasons---becomes inorganic once again---then we shall be compelled to say that 'the aim of all life is death' and, looking backwards, that 'inanimate things existed before living ones.'"
"If, therefore, we are not to abandon the hypotheses of death instincts, we must suppose them to be associated from the very first with life instincts."
"It may be asked whether and how far I am myself convined of the truth of the hypotheses that have been set forth in these pages. My answer would be that I am not convinced myself and that I do not seek to persuade other people to believe in them."
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