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Towards the Limits of Freudian Thinking: Critical Edition and Readings of Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Editor : Herman Westerink, Editor : Jenny Willner, Editor : Philippe Van Haute

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This book is a major intellectual event. It sheds new light on the genesis and the interpretation of one of the most difficult and most studied—but least well understood—cornerstones of psychoanalytic theory, Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle. The archival research is meticulous and impressive, and the scholarship is first-rate. The specific focus on the role played by theories of biology makes this book especially timely as it raises provocative questions about the very definition of life and death and resonates with current discussions about biology and psychic life. This important book will undoubtedly spark many important debates. It should be essential reading for anyone interested in psychoanalysis, science studies, and philosophy.
Elissa Marder, Emory University

This volume opens the way not only to re-read Freud´s famous writing Beyond the Pleasure Principle anew. It also changes our understanding of the development of Freud´s concept of drives after WWI. It shows the contradictions and difficulties of such a theory in a framework that could be called a bio-philosophy.
Wolfgang Müller-Funk, Universität Wien