Al di là del principio di piacere

‎‫‏‬ ‬‬‬‬‬‬ “Many of us will also find it hard to abandon our belief that in man himself there dwells an impulse towards perfection, which has brought him to his present heights of intellectual prowess and ethical sublimation, and from which it might be expected that his development into superman will Leggi tutto

What now follows is speculation, often quite extravagant speculation, which readers will regard or disregard according to their own particular standpoint. For the rest, it is an attempt to follow an idea right through to its logical conclusion, undertaken out of sheer curiosity as to where this will Leggi tutto

OMG I’m guessing that Freud was still doing hella coke when he wrote this. It’s kind of a hot mess. I can’t say I enjoyed reading it. Anyway. Freud defined the Pleasure Principle as the instinctive drive to seek pleasure and avoid pain. Freud thought of this as the basic motivational drive of the ID, wh Leggi tutto

الكتاب مما يعرض أواخر ما توصل إليه فرويد، فيمثل أهم تصوراته النهائية في التحليل النفسي وسد فجوات بعض الأسئلة والرد على بعض المعترضين، وتغيير أسس مركزية هامة ويُفهم منه الأفكار التي تشتهر بشكل سطحي وساذج عنه من كيفيات انبعاثها. -التقييم لقوة الكتاب في فهم أسس نظريات فرويد، وليس للنظريات ذاتها.- Leggi tutto

When you've read so much of an author, you sometimes experience a weird auto-hypnosis that makes you believe you've read the bulk of the author's corpus. So it is with yours truly and Sigmund Freud. Some years back, I hacked through his papers on hysteria and Interpretation of Dreams , thinking that Leggi tutto

This little book is indubitable proof of the breadth and depth of Freud's thinking. It is a fascinating and multi-faceted read, containing elements of psychoanalysis, philosophy, poetry, biology, and the literary theory. You will not believe how quickly Freud is able to move from topic to topic and