Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle constitutes a major landmark
and a real turning point in the evolution of psychoanalytic theory.
Pushing aside the primacy of the tension-discharge-gratification
model of mental dynamics, this work introduced the notion of a
"daemonic force" within all human beings that slowly but
insistently seeks psychic inactivity, inertia, and death. Politely
dismissed by some as a pseudo-biological speculation and
rapturously espoused by others as a bold conceptual advance, "death
instinct" became a stepping stone to the latter conceptualizations
of mind's attacks on itself, negative narcissism, addiction to
near-death, and the utter destruction of meaning in some clinical
situations. The concept also served as a bridge between the
quintessentially Western psychoanalysis and the Eastern
perspectives on life and death. These diverse and rich connotations
of the proposal are elucidated in On Freud's "Beyond the Pleasure
Principle". Other consequences of Freud's 1920 paper - namely, the
marginalization of ego instincts and the "upgrading" of aggression
in the scheme of things - are also addressed.
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