Pleasure Beyond the Pleasure Principle

by Robert Glick

Affects, or feelings, are crucial motivators and organizers in our psychological lives. Yet affect and the full range of emotional expressions have been relatively neglected by psychoanalysis since Freud's earliest formulations. This volume, the first in a three-part series addressing the centrality of affect, focuses on pleasure, which Freud believed to be a fundamental quality of affect. Here, psychoanalysts and psychiatrists integrate new understandings...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300047932
• ISBN13: 9780300047936
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"