The Back of ‘Beyond the Pleasure Principle’ – Freud’s ‘Big X’

Kistner plans to investigate the psychoanalytic theorisations of anxiety, shock, and trauma, focusing on Freud’s essay ‘Beyond the Pleasure Principle’ (1919-1920). She will set about to fathom the ‘explanatory gap’ opening up as Freud instates the psychophysicalism articulated in the ‘Project of a Scientific Psychology’ ([1895] 1950) for the third formulation of his drive theory.

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