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# Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Norton Library)

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desertcart.com: Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Norton Library): 9780393007695: Freud, Sigmund, Strachey, James, Gay, Peter: Books

Review: Few are ambivalent about Freud. - No one writes Freud like Freud does. Import for students and readers who want a concept pact sample of his thought and writing style.
Review: Better not to be born at all. - Well! Atlast! We now know that watching reruns of "I love Lucie" or getting drunk or recollecting scary times is all just one big temporary relief from life. finally,the truth; sex and/or drugs is just another way of saying "I don't really wanna be here!!

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Few are ambivalent about Freud.
*by S***L on February 10, 2017*

No one writes Freud like Freud does. Import for students and readers who want a concept pact sample of his thought and writing style.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Better not to be born at all.
*by T***. on September 11, 2013*

Well! Atlast! We now know that watching reruns of "I love Lucie" or getting drunk or recollecting scary times is all just one big temporary relief from life. finally,the truth; sex and/or drugs is just another way of saying "I don't really wanna be here!!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ An idea with the broadest implications
*by M***L on January 21, 2018*

Here Freud posits the concept of a death instinct, in opposition to Eros. Each stratum of life has an instinct to revert to the one before it, and therefore the earliest life, which grew out of inorganic matter, has an instinct to revert back to inorganic matter via death. Frued is, whatever one may think of him, an original and brilliant thinker, and that's evidenced here. I did not provide five stars as the theory's broader ramifications are not really developed here. The majority of the book is an investigation of a few instances that led him to develop the theory, and a survey of the biological sciences of the day, with a discussion of how biological evidence confirms/denies his idea. This is a rather abstruse discussion that has dated somewhat. The broader ramifications are left mostly to the reader, and are of great interest. For me, it was interesting to connect the idea to Erich Fromm's later theme of mankind's impulse to revert to earlier fixations and an escape from freedom. There is also a consoncance (though an ironic and not a straightforward one) between Freud's concept of the opposing life and death instincts with Moses' declaration: "I have set before thee on this day life and good, death and evil. Choose life..."

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