Quotes from book
Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Name: Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Author: Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud Original title Jenseits des Lustprinzips (German, 1920)

Beyond the Pleasure Principle is a 1920 essay by Sigmund Freud that marks a major turning point in his theoretical approach. Previously, Freud attributed most human behavior to the sexual instinct . With this essay, Freud went "beyond" the simple pleasure principle, developing his drive theory with the addition of the death drive, Todestrieb[e].

“Biology is truly a land of unlimited possibilities. We may expect it to give us the most surprising information, and we cannot guess what answers it will return in a few dozen years. …They may be of a kind which will blow away the whole of our artificial structure of hypothesis.”

Sigmund Freud book Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920)
1920s