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Beyond the Pleasure Principle

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'''''Beyond the Pleasure Principle''''' (first published in [[German language|German]] in [[1920]] as '''''Jenseits des Lustprinzips''''') is an essay by [[Sigmund Freud]]. It marked a turning point and a major modification of his previous theoretical approach. Before this essay, Freud was understood to have placed the sexual instinct, [[Eros (Freud)|Eros]], or the [[libido]], centre stage, in explaining the forces which drive us to act. In 1920, going "beyond" the simple [[pleasure principle (psychology)|pleasure principle]], Freud developed his theory of [[drive (psychology)|drive]]s, by adding [[Thanatos (Freud)|Thanatos]], also known as the [[death instinct]].
The main importance of the essay resides in the striking picture of human being, struggling between two opposing instincts or drives: [[Eros]] working for creativity, harmony, sexual connection, reproduction, and self-preservation; Thanatos for destruction, repetition, aggression, compulsion, and self-destruction.
In sections IV and V ''[[Beyond the Pleasure Principle]] [[Freud posits that ]] revised his earlier [[theory]] of the process [[drives]] which cause cell death at a microscopic level might have developed in order asserted the primacy of the [[pleasure principle]], that is to give say, the theory that our primary motivation as [[human ]] beings a death instinct as individuals. This theory has generally been discreditedis the fulfilment of [[pleasure]] or [[desire]].
[[Clinical]] [[experience]] revealed to Freud also took the opportunity to state the basic differences, as he saw them, between his approach and that of [[Carl Jungsubjects]] compulsively repeated painful or [[traumatic]] experiences in direct [[contradiction]], and covered to the history so far primacy of research into the basic drives (Section VI)pleasure [[principle]].
Freud called this beyond of pleasure 'the [[death]] [[drive]]' and suggested that the primary [[purpose]] of [[life]] is to find the correct path to death.
 
[[Lacan]] followed Freud in associating the [[death drive]] with [[repetition]], but he argued that we are not driven towards death but by death.
 
It is [[loss]] that drives life through desire but, human beings will settle for any experience, however painful, rather than fall out of the familiarity of the [[symbolic]] into the [[trauma]] and [[void]] of the [[real]].
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Beyond the Pleasure Principle was presented by Freud as the "third step in the theory of drives." The essay, which introduced the dynamic of the life and death impulses was "in gestation" on March 17, 1919. On May 12, Freud spoke with Sándor Ferenczi, stating "Not only have I completed Beyond the Pleasure Principle, which I'll have recopied for you, but I have also returned to that little trifle on the uncanny and attempted . . . to provide a YA basis for group psychology." On April 2, he spoke of the essay to Lou...
[[Category:Freudian psychology]]
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