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On Freud's "Beyond the pleasure principle" /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Akhtar, Salman, 1946 July 31-, O'Neil, Mary Kay, Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: London : Karnac Books, 2011.
Colección:Contemporary Freud.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 attacks o
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvi, 312 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-294) and index.
ISBN:9781849407090
1849407096