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On Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle

On Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Akhtar, Salman
O'Neil, Mary Kay

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Series: International Psychoanalytical Association Contemporary Freu

General PsychologyMental Health

ISBN10: 1855757850
ISBN13: 9781855757851
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 31 2011
Pages: 330
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.60 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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 on itself, negative narcissism, addiction to near-death, and the utter destruction of meaning in some clinical situations. The concept also served as a bridge between the quintessentially Western psychoanalysis and the Eastern perspectives on life and death. These diverse and rich connotations of the proposal are elucidated in On Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle. Other consequences of Freud's 1920 paper - namely, the marginalization of ego instincts and the upgrading of aggression in the scheme of things - are also addressed.

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