This book is a collection of papers by leading contemporary
psychoanalysts who comment on the continuing important relevance of
Freud's (1911) paper, Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental
Functioning. The contributors gathered here represent current
European, Latin American, and North American perspectives that
elaborate the continuing value of Two Principles for present-day
psychoanalytic thinking. Each author examines Freud's paper through
a personal lens that is coloured by the psychoanalytic culture from
which he or she comes. In each instance, the writers' chapters
demonstrate the heuristic value of Two Principles for twenty-first
century psychoanalytic theory and technique. A common thread that
runs through all the chapters is the view that this brief paper by
Freud, which he humbly introduced by stating, "The deficiencies of
this short paper, which is preparatory rather than expository ...",
is a masterpiece that contains within it the seeds of much of his
later writing. The distinction he draws between the pleasure
principle and the reality principle are profound and raise
questions that still preoccupy analysis today.
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