On Freud's "Beyond the Pleasure Principle"

✍ Scribed by Salman Akhtar, Mary Kay O'Neil

• Publisher: Karnac Books
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 331
• Series: CONTEMPORARY FREUD Turning Points and Critical Issues
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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. Diverse and rich connotations of the proposal are elucidated in this book. Other consequences of Freud's 1920 paper--namely, the marginalization of ego instincts, the introduction of Freud's second dream theory, and the upgrading of aggression in the scheme of things--are also addressed. The editors have gathered a body of distinguished psychoanalysts from around the world to argue, discuss, elaborate upon, and advance Freud's groundbreaking contribution.Contributors: Salman Akhtar, Ira Brenner, F?tima Caropreso, Michael Feldman, Betty Joseph, Otto Kernberg, Joshua Levy, Ashok Nagpal, Mary Kay O’Neil, Henri Parens, Richard Theisen Simanke, W. Craig Tomlinson, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS......Page 6
CONTEMPORARY FREUD......Page 8
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 10
EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS......Page 12
Introduction......Page 20
PART I Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920g)......Page 30
PART II Discussion of Beyond the Pleasure Principle......Page 90
1 Jenseits and beyond: teaching Freud’s late work......Page 92
2 Life and death in Freudian metapsychology: a reappraisal of the second instinctual dualism......Page 105
3 An unusual manifestation of repetition compulsion in traumatized patients......Page 127
4 The dream in 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle' and beyond......Page 147
5 Does the death-instinct-based theory of aggression hold up?......Page 173
6 The concept of the death drive: a clinical perspective......Page 192
7 Addiction to near-death......Page 210
8 Manifestations of the death instinct in the consulting room......Page 225
9 A Hindu reading of Freud’s 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle'......Page 249
10 The trauma of lost love in psychoanalysis......Page 269
Epilogue......Page 284
REFERENCES......Page 298
INDEX......Page 316