Beyond the Pleasure Principle

First published in 1920, Beyond the Pleasure Principle documents Freud''s expansion of his psychological theories. Heretofore insisting that pleasure and sexual instinct are the chief factors in h ...

First published in 1920, Beyond the Pleasure Principle documents Freud''s expansion of his psychological theories. Heretofore insisting that pleasure and sexual instinct are the chief factors in human behavior, Freud introduced the concepts of death drive and death instinct in this volume, depicting humanity as constantly struggling between the two opposing drives.