Beyond the Pleasure Principle

relate them in such a manner that unpleasure corresponds to an increase in the quantity of excitation and pleasure to a diminution.

But on this point we are, alas, offered nothing to our purpose.

and the impressions that underlie the hypothesis of the pleasure principle are so obvious that they can scarcely be overlooked

Priority and originality are not among the aims that psycho-analytic work sets itself;

We have arrived at these speculative assumptions

mental processes which are the subject of our study,

that is, with an avoidance of unpleasure or a production of pleasure.

Sigmund Freud died in London in September of 1939 at the age of eighty-three.

his impact on modern culture cannot be denied

His work and theories have helped color our entire views of childhood, memory, personality and sexuality