Pleasure beyond the pleasure principle
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Pleasure beyond the pleasure principle
（The Role of affect in motivation, development, and adaptation, v. 1）
Yale University Press, c1990
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Affects, or feelings, are crucial motivators and organizers in our psychological lives. Yet affect and the full range of emotional expressions have been relatively neglected by psychoanalysis since Freud's earliest formulations. This volume, the first in a three-part series addressing the centrality of affect, focuses on pleasure, which Freud believed to be a fundamental quality of affect. Here, psychoanalysts and psychiatrists integrate new understandings from the neurosciences, clinical research and practice, and observational studies of the development of infants and nonhuman mammals, and scholars in the humanities report on the philosophic and aesthetic implications. Discussing such topics as joy and satisfaction in infancy, pleasure and sexuality, pleasure and hatred, psychobiologic and psychopharmocologic perspectives on pleasure and anhedonia, they provide a comprehensive examination of the development, neurobiology, behavioural manifestations and meanings of pleasure and affect.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Developmental considerations - an infant's pleasures: joy and satisfaction in infancy, Daniel N.Stern, MD
- play, pleasure, reality, Eugene Mahon, MD
- a developmental approach to pleasure and sexuality, Stanley I. Greenspan, MD
- early symbiotic processes - hard evidence from a soft place, Myrin A. Hofer, MD. Part 2 The theoretical frontier - mind-brain questions of the pleasurable: project for the study of the emotion , Donald L. Nathanson, MD
- on narcissism - an(other) introduction, Andrew Schwartz, MD
- appetitive pleasure states - a bio-psychoanalytical model of the pleasure threshold, mental representation, and defense, Norman Diodge, MD. Part 3 The clinical situation - the patient, the analyst, and the importance of pleasure: hatred as pleasure, Otto F. Kernberg, MD
- on pleasurable effects, Charles Brenner, MD
- anhedonia and its implications for psycho-therapy, Michael H. Stone, MD. Part 3 Aesthetic and philosophic inquires on the nature of pleasure: reflections on psychoanalysis and aesthetic pleasure, Ellen Handler Spitz
- the sub-dominance of the pleasure principle, Edward S. Casey
- the pleasures of repitition, Judith Butler PhD.
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