On Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle
by Akhtar, Salman; O'Neil, Mary KayFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-04-30
Publisher(s): Karnac Books
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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. diverse and rich connotations of the proposal are elucidated in this book. Other consequences of Freud's 1920 paper--namely, the marginalization of ego instincts, the introduction of Freud's second dream theory, and the upgrading of aggression in the scheme of things--are also addressed. The editors have gathered a body of distinguished psychoanalysts from around the world to argue, discuss, elaborate upon, and advance Freud's groundbreaking contribution.
Table of Contents
| Contemporary Freud: IPA Publications Committee | p. vii |
| Acknowledgements | p. ix |
| Editors and Contributors | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920g) | p. 13 |
| Discussion of Beyond the Pleasure Principle | |
| Jenseits and beyond: teaching Freud's late work | p. 73 |
| Life and death in Freudian metapsychology: a reappraisal of the second instinctual dualism | p. 86 |
| An unusual manifestation of repetition compulsion in traumatized patients | p. 108 |
| The dream in Beyond the Pleasure Principle and beyond | p. 128 |
| Does the death-instinct-based theory of aggression hold up? | p. 154 |
| The concept of the death drive: a clinical perspective | p. 173 |
| Addiction to near-death | p. 191 |
| Manifestations of the death instinct in the consulting room | p. 206 |
| A Hindu reading of Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle | p. 230 |
| The trauma of lost love in psychoanalysis | p. 250 |
| Epilogue | p. 265 |
| References | p. 279 |
| Index | p. 297 |
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