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1 online resource (xvi, 312 pages) |
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Contemporary Freud turning points and critical issues |
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Contemporary Freud
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| Contents |
Introduction / Salman Akhtar -- I: Beyond the pleasure principle (1920g) / Sigmund Freud -- II: Discussion of beyond the pleasure principle -- Jenseits and beyond: teaching Freud's late work / W. Craig Tomlinson -- Life and death in Freudian metapsychology: a reappraisal of the second instinctual dualism / Fátima Caropreso & Richard Theisen Simanke -- An unusual manifestation of repetition compulsion in traumatized patients / Ira Brenner -- The dream in Beyond the Pleasure Principle and beyond / Joshua Levy -- Does the death-instinct-based theory of aggression hold up? / Henri Parens -- The concept of the death drive: a clinical perspective / Otto Kernberg -- Addiction to bear-death / Betty Joseph -- Manifestations of the death instinct in the consulting room / Michael Feldman -- A Hindu reading of Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle / Ashok Nagpal -- The trauma of lost live in psychoanalysis / Elisabeth Young-Bruchl -- Epilogue / Mary Kay O'Neil |
| Summary |
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 o |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-294) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939. Jenseits des Lustprinzips.
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Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 Jenseits des Lustprinzips. English |
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Jenseits des Lustprinzips (Freud, Sigmund) |
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Jenseits des Lustprinzips. |
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Pleasure principle (Psychology)
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Pleasure-Pain Principle
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Movements -- Psychoanalysis.
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Pleasure principle (Psychology)
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Akhtar, Salman, 1946 July 31-
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O'Neil, Mary Kay
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Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
Jenseits des Lustprinzips. English
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| ISBN |
9781849407090 |
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1849407096 |
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