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

• Pubblicazione: London, : Karnac, 2011
• Edizione: 1st
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (416 p.)
• Disciplina: 150.195
• Soggetto topico: Psychoanalysis; Pleasure principle (Psychology)
• Altri autori: AkhtarSalman <1946 July 31-> O'NeilMary Kay
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: On Freud's "Beyond the pleasure principle"
• 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910954777703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contemporary Freud.