On Freud's "Beyond the Pleasure Principle"

ISBN-13: 9780367106805 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 330 str.

Salman Akhtar; Mary Kay O'Neil

Opis

Freud's "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" constitutes a major landmark and a real turning point in the evolution of psychoanalytic theory. This work introduces the notion of a 'deamonic force' within all human beings that slowly but insistently seeks psychic inactivity, inertia, and death.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Salman Akhtar