Book Summary of Beyond the Pleasure Principle-First Edition Text.
2009
reprint 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.
Details of Book: Beyond the Pleasure Principle-First Edition Text.
| Book: | Beyond the Pleasure Principle-First Edition Text. |
| Author: | Sigmund Freud |
| ISBN: | 1578988454 |
| ISBN-13: | 9781578988457,978-1578988457 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Publishing Date: | Oct 2009 |
| Publisher: | Martino Fine Books |
| Number of Pages: | 98 |
| Language: | English |
| Dimensions: | 9 x 6 x 0.23 inches |
| Weight: | 154 grams |
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