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Author : Robert A. Glick,Stanley Bone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Pleasure
ISBN : 0300047932
Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003-07-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780141184050
in Freud's view we are driven by the desire for pleasure as well as by the desire to avoid pain. But the pursuit of pleasure has never been a simple thing. Pleasure can be a form of fear, a form of memory and a way of avoiding reality. Above all, as these essays show with remarkable eloquence, pleasure is a way in which we repeat ourselves. The essays collected in this volume explore, in Freud's uniquely subtle and accessible style, the puzzles of pleasure and morality - the enigmas of human development.
Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780141931661
A collection of some of Freud's most famous essays, including ON THE INTRODUCTION OF NARCISSISM; REMEMBERING, REPEATING AND WORKING THROUGH; BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE; THE EGO AND THE ID and INHIBITION, SYMPTOM AND FEAR.
Author : Salman Akhtar,Mary Kay O'Neil
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429902567
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 on itself, negative narcissism, addiction to near-death, and the utter destruction of meaning in some clinical situations. The concept also served as a bridge between the quintessentially Western psychoanalysis and the Eastern perspectives on life and death. These diverse and rich connotations of the proposal are elucidated in On Freud's "Beyond the Pleasure Principle". Other consequences of Freud's 1920 paper - namely, the marginalization of ego instincts and the "upgrading" of aggression in the scheme of things - are also addressed.
Author : Susan Sugarman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107116399
This book presents Freud's theory of the mind as an organic whole, built from first principles and developing in sophistication over time.
Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780486790305
Controversial 1920 publication expands Freud's theoretical approach to include the death drive. The philosopher's concept of the ongoing struggle between harmony (Eros) and destruction (Thanatos) influenced his subsequent work.
Author : Robert A. Glick,Stanley Bone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0300047932
Affects, or feelings, are crucial motivators and organizers in our psychological lives. Yet affect and the full range of emotional expressions have been relatively neglected by psychoanalysis since Freud's earliest formulations. This volume, the first in a three-part series addressing the centrality of affect, focuses on pleasure, which Freud believed to be a fundamental quality of affect. Here, psychoanalysts and psychiatrists integrate new understandings from the neurosciences, clinical research and practice, and observational studies of the development of infants and nonhuman mammals, and scholars in the humanities report on the philosophic and aesthetic implications.
Author : Michel Poizat
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Music
ISBN : 0801423880
French in 1986, is now available in Arthur Denner's fluid and sensitive English translation. Predictably, Poizat's route is not at all a conventional one. Rather than taking as his point of departure the intentions of composers and librettists, he is primarily concerned with the expectations and desires of the audience. He reports on an informal group interview with overnight standees on the Paris Opera House steps as they compare notes on how opera became an addiction.
Author : Chris Steele-Perkins,Perkins Chris Steele
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Photography
ISBN : PSU:000017765329
England is a strange place-- funny, complex and sad. Distance yourself from it, experience other cultures-- then look again. That strangeness becomes almost overwhelming. This is a powerful and perceptive view of England in the eighties. Using ideas of 'pleasure, ' Chis Steele-Perkins explores a public, ritual face that cuts across class and location. What we see is not only familiar it is also frequently disturbing. Chris Steele-Perkins is a "Magnum photographer whose work has been seen in most major publications in the world. In 1988 he won both the World Press Photo Oskar Barnack Award and the Tom Hopkinson Award for Photojournalism; in 1989 he won the Robert Capa Gold Medal. He has published a number of books including "The Teds (1979, Travelling Light) and "Beirut Frontline Story (1982, Pluto Press).
Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780141912066
Here are the essential ideas of psychoanalytic theory, including Freud's explanations of such concepts as the Id, Ego and Super-Ego, the Death Instinct and Pleasure Principle, along with classic case studies like that of the Wolf Man. Adam Phillips's marvellous selection provides an ideal overview of Freud's thought in all its extraordinary ambition and variety. Psychoanalysis may be known as the 'talking cure', yet it is also and profoundly, a way of reading. Here we can see Freud's writings as readings and listenings, deciphering the secrets of the mind, finding words for desires that have never found expression. Much more than this, however, The Penguin Freud Reader presents a compelling reading of life as we experience it today, and a way in to the work of one of the most haunting writers of the modern age.
Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780141915517
These works were written against a background of war and racism. Freud sought the sources of conflict in the deepest memories of humankind, finding clear continuities between our 'primitive' past and 'civilized' modernity. In Totem and Taboo he explores institutions of tribal life, tracing analogies between the rites of hunter-gatherers and the obsessions of urban-dwellers, while Mourning and Melancholia sees a similarly self-destructive savagery underlying individual life in the modern age, which issues at times in self-harm and suicide. And Freud's extraordinary letter to Einstein, Why War? - rejecting what he saw as the physicist's naïve pacifism - sums up his unsparing view of history in a few profoundly pessimistic, yet grimly persuasive pages.
Author : Rosaura Martínez Ruiz
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780823298297
Eros considers a promise left unfulfilled in Sigmund Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle. Rosaura Martínez Ruiz argues that when the pleasure principle comes into contact with the death drive (the human tendency toward aggression or cruelty), the psyche can take detours that, without going beyond the limit of the pleasure principle, can nevertheless defer it. Eros reflects on these deviations of the pleasure principle, in the political sphere and in the intimate realm. Following these erotic paths, Martínez argues that the forces of the death drive can only be resisted if resistance is understood as an ongoing process. In such an effort, erotic action and the construction of pathways for sublimation are never-ending ethical and political tasks. We know that these tasks cannot be finally accomplished, yet they remain imperative and undeniably urgent. If psychoanalysis and deconstruction teach us that the death drive is insurmountable, through aesthetic creation and political action we can nevertheless delay, defer, and postpone it. Calling for the formation and maintenance of a “community of mourning duelists,” this book seeks to imagine and affirm the kind of “erotic battalion” that might yet be mobilized against injustice. This battalion’s mourning, Martínez argues, must be ongoing, open-ended, combative, and tenaciously committed to the complexity of ethical and political life.
Author : Todd Dufresne
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0804738858
A fundamental reassessment of the Freud legend that aims to shake the very foundations of Freud studies.
Author : Sigmund Freud,James Strachey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Authors, Bulgarian
ISBN : 0140138013
Covering the last three decades of Freud's life, this collection provides a chronological account of Freudian metapsychology, enabling the reader to trace the development of Freud's thought and modification of his theories in the light of his findings from his clinical work.
Author : Robert Pfaller
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781781681749
For many illusions it is easy to find owners—people who proudly declare their belief in things such as life after death, human reason, or the self-regulation of financial markets. Yet there are also different kinds of illusions, too, for example, in art: trompe l'oeil painting pleases its observers with "anonymous illusions"—illusions where it is not entirely clear who should be deceived. Anonymous illusions offer a universal pleasure principle within culture. They are present in games, sports, design, eroticism, manners, charm, beauty, and so on. However, it seems that this pleasure principle is increasingly misinterpreted. The proud proprietors of certain illusions are no longer capable of recognizing that they also follow anonymous illusions. As a consequence, they mistake happy, polite others for naïve idiots or "savages"—the possessors of stupid illusions whose happiness is an obscene intrusion into the lives of more rational creatures. The misrecognition of anonymous illusions thus becomes a crucial ideological bedrock for contemporary neoliberal policy. Hatred of the other's happiness leads to the destruction of the public sphere and to a state that, rather than fostering and stimulating its citizens' capacities, interpellates them as victims and limits itself to providing "protective" or repressive measures directed against them.