About this title: In 1915 at the University of Vienna 60-year-old Sigmund Freud delivered these lectures on psychoanalysis, pointing to the interplay of unconscious and conscious forces within individual psyches.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: LIVERIGHT PUBLISHING CORPORATI
Date Published: 1961
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Edition: Rev. ed.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Bantam, New York
Date Published: 1967
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Text in English, German. xii, 110 p.; 23 cm. International psycho-analytical library; no. 4. The International psycho-analytical library; no. 4.. Includes index. Bibliography, Notes. Intro by Dr. Gregory Zilboory. Reading copy, inside noticed 5 pages with an underline. Discoloring of the pages. Outside, soiling, a few spots, and a crease spine. read more
Edition: The Standard Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Date Published: 4/17/1990
ISBN-13:9780393007695ISBN:0393007693
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Edition: Sixth Printing
Binding: Soft
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1990
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Edition: Later Printing
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780393007695ISBN:0393007693
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Description: Very Good in edgetorn jacket. Translation by C. J. M. Hubback of Jenseits des Lustprinzips (1920). International Psycho-Analytical Library No. 4. London: Hogarth, 1948. 3rd printing. [First issued in English translation in 1922]. [viii]+90+[2]pp. Thin octavo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Corners bumped, else very good in edgetorn dust jacket. 10.0 ounces = 285 grams. 9.0 x 5.7 x 0.5 inches = 22.5 x 14.2 x 1.3cm. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Date Published: 1990-02-01
ISBN-13:9780393007695ISBN:0393007693
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 1990
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"I can't believe this is real. Freud says that we all have a deep rooted instinct driving us to turn back into inanimate objects. He calls it the death drive. This all evolved from the first moment of life, in which he admits something "incomprehensible" must have happened, in which some inanimate piece of matter became animate and then immediately had an instinct to reverse this new development by dying. Freud admits he's out on a limb here, but he suggests that future generations will study the death instinct and uncover all the ways our desire to die influences every aspect of our psychology.
"Given the amount of feminist critiques of Freud I have read, I finally decided it was time to read the man's own work. This book describes his theory that human beings are guided by two warring instincts: the life instinct, Eros, which preserves all things, and the death instinct, served by the pleasure principle, which seeks to return the human being to an inanimate state (i.e. death).
Beyond the Pleasure Principle, while short, is a tough read--Freud packs way too much information into each sentence, and I frequently found myself wishing he would slow down and explain his theories in more detail. In addition, this text was one of his last, and glosses a lot of his earlier concepts for which I could have used considerably more detailed explanation. But he's a fascinating writer, and it's interesting to see what he actually said compared to received wisdom about his theories (relatively little, honestly)."
"I only give this a poor rating b/c I didn't not understand a lot of it since I'm not familiar with a lot of the terms. However, it provides an extremely valuable view about trauma and human behavior and motivations. But I will definitely have to reread it."
"When you've read so much of an author, you sometimes experience a weird auto-hypnosis that makes you believe you've read the bulk of the author's corpus. So it is with yours truly and Sigmund Freud. Some years back, I hacked through his papers on hysteria and Interpretation of Dreams, thinking that I had mastered the "essential Freud." I was (and am) more taken with Jung, but one must occasionally return to the font.
Much of the Freud I had read previously seemed to confirm the opinion of those who believe him to have been sexually obsessed to the point of becoming myopic, redundant, and irrelevant. Until I read Beyond the Pleasure Principle, I was prone to think so. In this book, however, I found a jewel of wisdom that shall forever transform my view of Freud. He may have been sexually obsessed and he may even have, erroneously in my opinion, taken a different tack than William James on a similar issue, but this particular principle I am going to recount seems to me both valid and important.
Freud perceived that, given any organic process, the initiation of action is the result of unsettled tension. He posited that the organism would strive, one way or another, to resolve that tension according to two complementary ideals: avoidance of pain and production of pleasure. That position has come to be known as the Pleasure Principle.
The important concept in the present work under description (though I confess that I read this in my Great Books volume of Freud rather than one of the separate editions available elsewhere) is that observation that what may be pain for one system may be pleasure for another. So, how does one reconcile the so-called Pleasure Principle to that fact?
Freud draws from the research of J. Breuer and observes that, even on the embryonic level, there is a tension between the protective systems that preserve the integrity of the organism from excessive external stimuli which would change and destroy it and the receptive system that accepts a certain portion of this external stimuli and is excited positively by it (p. 647 in my volume). In the human thought process, the former protects the consciousness from overload and provides assurance of continuing "personality." The latter provides pleasure and pain.
Thereby, Freud is able to define instinct in the following way: "According to this, an instinct would be a tendency innate in living organic matter, impelling it towards the reinstatement of an earlier condition, ..." (p. 651). One's instinct, then, would be to resist change and to conserve existence. Ironically, Freud goes on to suggest that this very urge of preservation becomes a "death instinct" and that the only counter, open to the stimulation that causes further development, is the "sex instinct."
While I was amused at this oversimplification, I was also struck at the wisdom which showed both our basic organisms and our thought process itself in constant tension between conservation and development. If over-stimulation is a threat, so is under-stimulation. To me, this explained that great publishing philosophy espoused by my old mentor, Jonathan Lane (great Ziff-Davis publisher). Lane said that "Magazines must be a mixture of comfort and surprise." Now, I realize that all of life needs to follow this delicate recipe, and I have at least one pyschological concept with which to demonstrate that recipe."
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