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Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Broadview Editions)

By Sigmund Freud , Todd Dufresne (editor)

Book information

Publisher
Broadview Press
Year
2011
ISBN
1551119943, 9781551119946
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (20173598 bytes)
Edition
Critical ed.
Pages
400\404
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2023-11-21 21:55:20

Description

Beyond the Pleasure Principle is Freud’s most philosophical and speculative work, exploring profound questions of life and death, pleasure and pain. In it Freud introduces the fundamental concepts of the “repetition compulsion” and the “death drive,” according to which a perverse, repetitive, self-destructive impulse opposes and even trumps the creative drive, or Eros. The work is one of Freud’s most intensely debated, and raises important questions that have been discussed by philosophers and psychoanalysts since its first publication in 1920. The text is presented here in a contemporary new translation by Gregory C. Richter. Appendices trace the work’s antecedents and the many responses to it, including texts by Plato, Friedrich Nietzsche, Melanie Klein, Herbert Marcuse, Jacques Derrida, and Judith Butler, among many others.

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