On Freuds Beyond the Pleasure Principle

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Taylor & Francis Ltd

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491_9781855757851

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Freuds 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 minds attacks on itself, negative narcissism, addiction to near-death, and the utter destruction of meaning in some clinical situations. The concept also served as a bridge between the quintessentially Western psychoanalysis and the Eastern perspectives on life and death. These diverse and rich connotations of the proposal are elucidated in On Freuds Beyond the Pleasure Principle. Other consequences of Freuds 1920 paper - namely, the marginalization of ego instincts and the upgrading of aggression in the scheme of things - are also addressed.

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