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    <body><![CDATA[When you've read so much of an author, you sometimes experience a weird auto-hypnosis that makes you believe you've read the bulk of the author's corpus. So it is with yours truly and Sigmund Freud. Some years back, I hacked through his papers on hysteria and <em>Interpretation of Dreams</em>, thinking that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68808387">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Given the amount of feminist critiques of Freud I have read, I finally decided it was time to read the man's own work.  This book describes his theory that human beings are guided by two warring instincts: the life instinct, Eros, which preserves all things, and the death instinct, served by the ple...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73233848">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Penguin UK has been releasing a new set of translations of Freud's works, all with new introductions. The introduction of this edition of Beyond the Pleasure Principle is by Mark Edmundson, whose book <em>Freud and Reading</em> has been important to me. Here's a little gem I plucked from it: &quot;[Freud] is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/166380">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was sort of dumbfounded by all the pseudo-science in the latter half of the book, but I guess that's what you get playing with Freud. Anyway, this is a great read and an important one in understanding maybe the most enigmatic of Freud's theories, the death drive. Great discussion of compulsive rep...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40211358">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't believe this is real. Freud says that we all have a deep rooted instinct driving us to turn back into inanimate objects. He calls it the death drive. This all evolved from the first moment of life, in which he admits something &quot;incomprehensible&quot; must have happened, in which some in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75299089">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A very short work, much of which is quite recondite. Much of what Freud writes he admits is speculative.   Yet the idea that there is a life and a death instinct in all organisms is certainly something that can be discussed at a metapsychological level.  <br/><br/>Freud does raise an interesting q...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36850946">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the more outlandish -- which is NOT to say inaccurate --  explanations of human behavior.  This is where Freud unites the reality principle and the pleasure principle under the umbrella of the &quot;life instinct&quot; -- an innate drive for self-preservation.  In opposition to this, he posit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15618783">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This little book is indubitable proof of the breadth and depth of Freud's thinking. It is a fascinating and multi-faceted read, containing elements of psychoanalysis, philosophy, poetry, biology, and the literary theory. You will not believe how quickly Freud is able to move from topic to topic and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34785366">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If you are interested in psychoanalysis and literature this is the book to begin with--Freud's theories of the death drive have influenced everyone from Lacan to Peter Brooks to nearly all of queer theory.  Freud sets out to explain why we repeat unpleasant behavior, and, Wow!  we end up with the de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53460567">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What intrigues me about this book are the ways in which Freud discovers the origins of the death instinct in a well-reasoned, scientific argument about the beginnings of life.   ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Pleasure principle = death instinct; sexual drive = life instinct. Lots of speculative analogies drawn between biology and psychology in order to substantiate this basic claim. Done. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[read eponymous essay, &quot;beyond the pleasure principle,&quot; which is about the way humans reproduce traumatic experiences in an attempt to make them pleasurable.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[A collection of some of Freud's most famous essays, including: &quot;On the Introduction of Narcissim&quot;, &quot;Remembering, Repeating and Working Through&quot;, &quot;Beyond the Pleasure Principle&quot;, &quot;The Ego and the ID and Inhibition, Symptom and Fear&quot;.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read for a Childhood and Trauma seminar.  Freud is far more interesting and useful if read as fiction.  Finally understand the death drive.  ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[A collection of some of Freud's most famous essays, including: &quot;On the Introduction of Narcissim&quot;, &quot;Remembering, Repeating and Working Through&quot;, &quot;Beyond the Pleasure Principle&quot;, &quot;The Ego and the ID and Inhibition, Symptom and Fear&quot;.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I only give this a poor rating b/c I didn't not understand a lot of it since I'm not familiar with a lot of the terms. However, it provides an extremely valuable view about trauma and human behavior and motivations. But I will definitely have to reread it.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Somehow arrives at a nascent theory of the 'death instincts' through a strange combination of contemporary biological knowledge and his empirical clinical findings. For example, he spends ample time discussing protista and their apparent ability to replicate without degenerating as if there was some...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10773471">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It was interesting to finally read a full explanation of the &quot;compulsion to repeat,&quot; but the pseudo-science about cortical layers and whatnot was a total bore.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[A collection of some of Freud's most famous essays, including: &quot;On the Introduction of Narcissim&quot;, &quot;Remembering, Repeating and Working Through&quot;, &quot;Beyond the Pleasure Principle&quot;, &quot;The Ego and the ID and Inhibition, Symptom and Fear&quot;.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not his most entertaining work, but fascinating and quite readable all the same. Freud here introduces the &quot;compulsion to repeat&quot; (that's what y'all do when you keep dating the same type of loser over and over again) &amp; the death drive (the explication of which is actually pretty vague and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9020734">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Beyond the Pleasure Principle]]>
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  <read_at>Mon Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read this book a few times, and at less than ninety pages it's not hard to do. It's really formed a good foundation for me of how I feel about the world and a vocabulary to deal with the feelings I experience. Who knows if other people have that kind of experience with this, but I loved it.]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not his best work in any sense. Here Freud tries to dive into the beginnings of life and work out what death is (among other things). What he comes up with is an astounding depth of...all I can say is wrong. I actually felt sick following his logic at times...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Sigmund Freud possessed a scintillating combination of genius and stupidity (one might say that he had a genius for stupidity), and this volume brings out both extremes in an amusing fashion. ]]></body>
    
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