Collected writings : the basis of psychoanalytic psychology : The psychopathology of everyday life, the theory of sexuality, Beyond the pleasure principle, the ego and the id, the future of an illusion
(2010)
Nonfiction
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[United States]: Neeland Media LLC , 2010
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1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781420936346 (electronic bk.) MWT11908275, 1420936344 (electronic bk.) 11908275
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
This short work by world-renowned psychologist Sigmund Freud marks a major turning point in the author's theoretical approach. Prior to this work Freud's examination of the forces that drive man focused primarily on the "Eros" of man, the life instinct innate in all humans. In "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" Freud moves beyond these creative and pleasure-seeking impulses to discuss the impact on human psychology of the "Thanatos," or death instinct, which Freud describes as "an urge inherent in all organic life to restore an earlier state of things."
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