On Freud''s Beyond the Pleasure Principle

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Salman Akhtar

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Salman O''''neil Akhtar
• Assisted by: Salman Akhtar (Editor), Mary Kay O'Neil (Editor), O'Neil Mary Kay (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367106805
• ISBN: 978-0-367-10680-5
• No. of pages: 330
• Series: The International Psychoanalytical Association Contemporary Freud Turning Points and Critical Issues Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis