Beyond the Pleasure Principle Revisited

Clinical Explorations in the 21st Century
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-56484-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 154 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: The Psychoanalytic Ideas Series

Contemporary Readings of Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle explores this strange and unsettling text, and the impact it has had since its publication in 1920. The contributors to this book, representing diverse psychoanalytic traditions, invite us to re-read and to re-find Freud’s text in its rich complexity. There is much to explore beyond the death drive: the chapters included here reflect on the notion of a necessary binding ‘before the pleasure principle’, the genesis of psychic representation, the value as well as the cost of the repetition compulsion in psychic life and offer an account of the origins of symbol formation. These refreshing perspectives show us that Freud’s text continues to stimulate new life in clinical and theoretical understanding. Contemporary Readings of Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists in training and in practice. It will also be of interest to academics and scholars of psychoanalytic ideas.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chaplin, Rachel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface. Acknowledgements. Notes on Contributors. Disclaimer. Introduction by Rosine Perelberg. Beyond the Pleasure Principle: the Repetition Compulsion and Sexuality. Part One: The death drive, or not? Some views on the Manifestation of the Death Drive in clinical work by Michael Feldman. Still Life: Vicissitudes of the Death Drive in the Analysis of a male patient by Christine English. The Death Drive: not a drive, not about death, but a retreat from complexity by Michael Parsons. Part Two: The Play of the Drives. Fort/ Da: the play of the drives in clinical work by E.B. Martin. Before the Pleasure Principle by Anna Streeruwitz. Beyond the Pleasure Principle and Bion's Epistemophilic Instinct by Kate Pugh. Affect and the 'slow' drive: a metapsychology of anger by Josh Cohen. Epilogue: Freud's letter to the future. It's not a sin to fly: Beyond the Pleasure Principle and the radical imagination by Rachel Chaplin. Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Rachel Chaplin is a training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society and Honorary Associate Professor at University College London.