Download [PDF] Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Broadview Editions)

Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Broadview Editions)

Description :
em Beyond the Pleasure Principle em is Freud’s most
philosophical and speculative work, exploring profound
questions of life and death, pleasure and pain. In it Freud
introduces the fundamental concepts of the “repetition
compulsion” and the “death drive,” according to which a
perverse, repetitive, selfdestructive impulse opposes and even
trumps the creative drive, or Eros. The work is one of Freud’s
most intensely debated, and raises important questions that
have been discussed by philosophers and psychoanalysts
since its first publication in 1920. The text is presented here in
a contemporary new translation by Gregory C. Richter.
Appendices trace the work’s antecedents and the many
responses to it, including texts by Plato, Friedrich Nietzsche,
Melanie Klein, Herbert Marcuse, Jacques Derrida, and Judith
Butler, among many others. em em
GO TO NEXT PAGE

READ BOOK
DOWNLOAD BOOK