On Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle

by Salman Akhtar

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1855757850
• ISBN13: 9781855757851
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 9.0"