Beyond the Pleasure Principle

by Sigmund Freud

First published in 1920, these Freud essays address the compulsion to repeat, the role of instinctual drives, and how we act in contradiction to the drive for pleasure. In a section on child's play, Freud relates his story of the game of "fort/da."

Available editions of Beyond the Pleasure Principle

	9780393007695, Paperback, W W Norton & Co Inc, 1990 $3.99 (Very Good) Other copies of 9780393007695

	9780393011180, Book, Norton, 1975 $15.15 (Used - Good) Other copies of 9780393011180

Publisher Notes

In the course of theorizing about psychoanalysis, Freud changed his mind on some important matters. Perhaps the most striking was his revision of instinct, or desire, theory. "Beyond the Pleasure Principle," published in 1920, is the first clear statement of Freud's new drive theory: love and life now stand over against aggression and death. The book represents an important theoretical revision of Freud's earlier ideas and a turning point in psychoanalytic theory.

First Line

"In the theory of psychoanalysis, we have no hestitation in assuming that the course taken by mental events is automatically regulated by the pleasure principle."

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