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Beyond the Pleasure Principle past Sigmund Freud
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"The patient cannot remember the whole of what is repressed in him, and what he cannot remember may exist precisely the essential function of it.. He is obliged to repeat the repressed material every bit a gimmicky experience instead of remembering it every bit something in the past."
― Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle

"Many of us will too find it hard to abandon our belief that in human being himself at that place dwells an impulse towards perfection, which has brought him to his present heights of intellectual prowess and ethical sublimation, and from which information technology might exist expected that his development into superman volition be ensured. Only I do non believe in the beingness of such an inner impulse, and I see no manner of preserving this pleasing illusion. The development of man upwards to now does not seem to me to demand any caption differing from that of fauna evolution, and the restless striving towards further perfection which may be observed in a minority of human beings is easily explicable as the effect of that repression of instinct upon which what is near valuable in human being civilization is built."
― Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle

"Most of the 'hurting' we experience is of a perceptual social club, perception either of the urge of unsatisfied instincts or of something in the external earth which may be painful in itself or may agitate painful anticipations in the psychic appliance and is recognised by it as 'danger."
― Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle

"If human must himself dice, later first losing his near beloved ones by death, he would prefer that his life be forfeit to an inexorable law of nature, the sublime †Å¬³Ç·, than to a mere accident which perhaps could have been in some way avoided. But peradventure this belief in the incidence of death as the necessary consequence of an inner police of existence is also but one of those illusions that we have fashioned for ourselves 'so every bit to endure the burden of being'. It is certainly not a primordial belief: the idea of a 'natural death' is alien to primitive races; they ascribe every expiry occurring among themselves to the influence of an enemy or an evil spirit. So let"
― Sigmund Freud, Across the Pleasure Principle

"The reaction to these claims of impulse and these threats of danger, a reaction in which the real activity of the psychic apparatus is manifested, may be guided correctly by the pleasance-principle or by the reality-principle which modifies this."
― Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle

"Nether the influence of the instinct of the ego for self-preservation it is replaced past the 'reality-principle ', which without giving upward the intention of ultimately attaining pleasure nonetheless demands and enforces the postponement of satisfaction, the renunciation of manifold possibilities of it, and the temporary endurance of 'pain' on the long and complex road to pleasure. The pleasure-principle however remains for a long time the method of operation of the sex activity impulses, which are not so easily educable, and it happens over and over again that whether acting through these impulses or operating in the ego itself it prevails over the reality-principle to the detriment of the whole organism."
― Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle

"The details of the process by which repression changes a possibility of pleasure into a source of 'hurting' are not all the same fully understood, or are not still capable of clear presentation, only it is certain that all neurotic 'pain' is of this kind, is pleasance which cannot be experienced equally such."
― Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle

"And so long every bit we trace the evolution from its final outcome backwards, the chain of events appears continuous, and we feel we take gained an insight which is completely satisfactory or even exhaustive. But if we go on in the contrary way, if we start from the premises inferred from the assay and attempt to follow these upwardly to the final results, then we no longer get the impression of an inevitable sequence of events which could not have otherwise been determined."
― Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle

"In the traumatic neuroses there are two outstanding features which might serve every bit clues for further reflection: first that the master causal factor seemed to prevarication in the element of surprise, in the fearfulness; and secondly that an injury or wound sustained at the same fourth dimension more often than not tended to prevent the occurrence of the neurosis."
― Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle

"The compulsion which thereby finds expression is in no style dissimilar from the repetition-compulsion of neurotics, even though such persons have never shown signs of a neurotic disharmonize resulting in symptoms. Thus one knows people with whom every human relationship ends in the same way: benefactors whose protégés, however different they may otherwise have been, invariably after a time desert them in ill-will, so that they are plain condemned to drain to the dregs all the bitterness of ingratitude; men with whom every friendship ends in the friend'south treachery; others who indefinitely oftentimes in their lives invest some other person with authorization either in their own eyes or by and large, and themselves overthrow such authority afterward a given time, merely to supervene upon it by a new i; lovers whose tender relationships with women each and all run through the aforementioned phases and come to the same cease, and then on. We are less astonished at this ‗endless repetition of the aforementioned' if there is involved a question of active behaviour on the part of the person concerned, and if we detect in his character an unalterable trait which must always manifest itself in the repetition of identical experiences."
― Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle

"Nosotros have decided to consider pleasance and 'pain' in relation to the quantity of excitation present in the psychic life—and non bars in any way—along such lines that 'pain' corresponds with an increase and pleasure with a subtract in this quantity."
― Sigmund Freud, Across the Pleasure Principle

"pleasure or "pain" may be thought of in psycho-physical relationship to weather of stability and instability,"
― Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasance Principle

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