Beyond the Pleasure Principle by Sigmund Freud [1967 PAPERBACK]

VINTAGE PAPERBACK [1967] BANTAM BOOKS

Mass market paperback; like new and unread with some subtle tanning to pages.  

Beyond the Pleasure Principle is Freud’s most philosophical and speculative work, exploring profound questions of life and death, pleasure and pain. In it Freud introduces the fundamental concepts of the “repetition compulsion” and the “death drive,” according to which a perverse, repetitive, self-destructive impulse opposes and even trumps the creative drive, or Eros. The work is one of Freud’s most intensely debated, and raises important questions that have been discussed by philosophers and psychoanalysts since its first publication in 1920.