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I haven't exactly read the book yet...But I'm terribly excited about it. Freud is an amazing person who I admire greatly. I'm doing a report on him as well...I'll let you know how the book turns out!
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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is one of the twentieth century's greatest minds and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. His many works include The Ego and the Id; An Outline of Psycho-Analysis; Inhibitions; Symptoms and Anxiety; New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis; Civilization and Its Discontent, and others.
Peter Gay is the author of more than twenty-five books, including the National Book Award winner The Enlightenment, the best-selling Weimar Culture, and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time. He lives in New York City.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Sigmund Freud: A Brief Chronology
Translator's Note
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Appendix A: Other Works by Sigmund Freud
1. From "The Uncanny"(1919)
2. From The Ego and the Id (1923)
3. From "The Economic Problem of Masochism" (1924)
4. From "A Note about 'The Mystic Writing Pad'" (1926)
5. From Civilization and Its Discontents (1930)
6. From "Analysis Terminable and Interminable" (1937)
Appendix B: Antecedents and Continental Responses to Beyond the Pleasure Principle
1. Empedocles, Love and Strife (ca. 420 BCE )
2. Plato, Aristophanes' Discourse on Love (ca. 385 BCE )
3. Arthur Schopenhauer, Death is the Résumé of Life (1892)
4. Friedrich Nietzsche, Repetition, Pleasure, and Pain (1882, 1886, posthumous)
5. Walter Benjamin, Shock and the Creative Process (1939)
6. Jacques Lacan, Death, Desire, and Freud's Radical Turn (1954-55)
7. Melanie Klein, On the Development of Mental Functioning (1958)
8. Norman O. Brown, Instinctual Dialectics Against Instinctual Dualism (1959)
9. Norman O. Brown, On Death, Time, and Eternity From Hegel to Freud (1959)
10. Paul Ricoeur, Superego and Culture: A Hermeneutic Interpretation (1965)
11. Paul Ricoeur, Open Questions: On Negation, Pleasure, Reality (1965)
12. Gilles Deleuze, Sadism, Masochism, and the Death Instinct (1967)
13. Jacques Derrida, Freud's Magic Writing Pad (1967)
14. Herbert Marcuse, "A Decisive Correction": Non-Repressive Progress and Freud's Instinct Theory (1970)
15. Jean Laplanche, Economic Paradox of the Death Drive (1970)
16. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, First Positive Task of Schizoanalysis (1972)
17. Erich Fromm, A Humanist Response to the Death Instinct Theory (1973)
18. Rodolphe Gasché, Scientific Discourse in Light of Metapsychological Speculation (1974)
19. Jean Baudrillard, The Metaphor of the Death Drive and Its Counter-Finality (1976)
20. J.-B. Pontalis, The Work of Death (1976)
21. Samuel Weber, Freud, Aristophanes, and the Phantastic Hypothesis (1979)
22. Jacques Derrida, "A Kind of Discourse on Method": Freud's Performative Writing (1980)
23. Judith Butler, The Pleasures of Repetition: A Phenomenological Perspective (1987)
24. Todd Dufresne, "The Possibility of Happiness": Absolute Narcissism and the Problem of Sociality (2000)
25. Slavoj Zizek, Paradox of the Freudian Death Drive (2006)
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