Book, Freud Beyond the Pleasure Principle [bilingual)[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. There is a before and after in the history of psychoanalysis. The watershed is precisely Beyond the Pleasure Principle, the most fascinating and disconcerting essay in Freud's work. In it, concepts that marked an era are introduced, such as Eros and the death drive. In a dizzying argument, Freud analyzes apparently disconnected experiences, such as a small child's game of throwing objects far away and sometimes retrieving them, the traumatic dreams of war neurotics, or the impression that we are blindly repeating a destiny that escapes us, etc. . These phenomena are analyzed in detail by Freud and culminate in the review of one of the most central theoretical foundations of psychoanalysis, the primacy of the pleasure principle as a regulator of psychic functioning. This is the first bilingual critical edition of a text by Freud in Brazil. In 1995, two unpublished manuscripts of the text were found, one of them containing only six chapters. We discovered, disconcerted, that even before formulating the concepts of Eros and the death drive, Freud had already crossed the threshold beyond the pleasure principle. Just like the German critical edition, first published in 2013, this edition features all six variants of the text, presented in a simple and intuitive way. It also comes with an extensive dossier entitled “To read Beyond the Pleasure Principle”, which contains a dictionary of cited authors and works, covering the psychoanalytic, philosophical, scientific and literary sources mentioned by Freud.