On Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle

by Salman Akhtar

Book Overview

Freud's "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" constitutes a major landmark and a real turning point in the evolution of psychoanalytic theory. This work introduces the notion of a 'deamonic force' within all human beings that slowly but insistently seeks psychic inactivity, inertia, and death.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367106809
• ISBN13: 9780367106805
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"