On Freud's "Beyond the pleasure principle" / edited by Salman Akhtar and Mary Kay O'Neil.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Akhtar, Salman, 1946 July 31-

O'Neil, Mary Kay.

Series:

Contemporary Freud.

Contemporary Freud Turning Points & Critical Issues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Pleasure principle (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.)

Edition:

1st

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac, 2011.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

Cover; Copy Right; CONTEMPORARY FREUD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; ON FREUD'S "BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE"; PART I: Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920g); PART II: Discussion of Beyond the Pleasure Principle; 1: Jenseits and beyond: teaching Freud's late work; 2: Life and death in Freudian metapsychology: a reappraisal of the second instinctual dualism; 3: An unusual manifestation of repetition compulsion in traumatized patients; 4. The dream in Beyond the Pleasure Principle and beyond; 5. Does the death-instinct-based theory of aggression hold up?

6. The concept of the death drive: a clinical perspective 7. Addiction to near-death; 8. Manifestations of the death instinct in the consulting room; 9. A Hindu reading of Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle; 10. The trauma of lost love in psychoanalysis; Epilogue; REFERENCES

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-78049-200-6

0-429-91679-5

0-429-90256-5

0-429-47779-1

1-283-07088-X

9786613070883

1-84940-709-6

9780429477799

OCLC:

723944164