Modern Classics Beyond the Pleasure Principle: And Other Writings (Penguin Modern Classics)

In Freud's View We Are Driven By The Desire For Pleasure As Well As By The Desire To Avoid Pain. But The Pursuit Has Never Been A Simple Thing. Pleasure Can Be A Form Of Fear, A Form Of Memory And A Way Of Avoiding Reality. Above All, As These Essays Show With Remarkable Eloquence, Pleasure Is A Way In Which We Repeat Ourselves. The Essays Collected In This Volume Explore, In Freud's Uniquely Subtle And Accessible Style, The Puzzles Of Pleasure And Morality - The Enigmas Of Human Development.--book Jacket. On The Introduction Of Narcissism -- Remembering, Repeating, And Working Through -- Beyond The Pleasure Principle -- The Ego And The Id -- Inhibition, Symptom, And Fear. Sigmund Freud ; Translated By John Reddick ; With An Introduction By Mark Edmundson. The New Penguin Freud--p. Preceding T.p. Includes Bibliographical References. Translated From The German.