Pushing aside the primacy of the tension-discharge-gratification model of mental dynamics, this work introduced the notion of a 'deamonic 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 paper - namely, the marginalization of ego instincts and the 'upgrading' of aggression in the scheme of things - are also addressed. Discusses the expectations and desires of opera audiences, and explains the feelings evoked by this art form in the hearts and minds of its devotees.
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.
These diverse and rich connotations of the proposal are elucidated in On Freud's "Beyond the Pleasure Principle". Other consequences of Freud's paper - namely, the marginalization of ego instincts and the "upgrading" of aggression in the scheme of things - are also addressed.
Beyond the Pleasure Principle is a book by Sigmund Freud that marks a major turning point in his theoretical approach. Beyond the Pleasure Principle Item Preview. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Usage Public Domain Mark 1. Theoretical speculations about an important concept of psychoanalysis.
Reviewer: Sampath Kumar Medavarapu - favorite favorite favorite - May 14, Subject: He said like this Many of us will also find it hard to abandon our belief that in man himself there dwells an impulse towards perfection, which has brought him to his present heights of intellectual prowess and ethical sublimation, and from which it might be expected that his development into superman will be ensured.
But I do not believe in the existence of such an inner impulse, and I see no way of preserving this pleasing illusion. The development of man up to now does not seem to me to need any explanation differing from that of animal development, and the restless striving towards further perfection which may be observed in a minority of human beings is easily explicable as the result of that repression of instinct upon which what is most valuable in human culture is built.
The path in the other direction, back to complete satisfaction, is as a rule barred by the resistances that maintain the repressions, and thus there remains nothing for it but to proceed in the other, still unobstructed direction, that of development, without, however, any prospect of being able to bring the process to a conclusion or to attain the goal.
The dynamic conditions are, it is true, quite generally present, but the economic relations seem only in rare cases to favour the phenomenon.
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