Freud’s Pleasure Principle: Pleasure in Displeasure?

  If you’re not interested in breaking with the common canons of thought, it might be better that you stop reading now. On the other hand, if you’re keen, we’re going to ask you what Sigmund Freud was referring to in his essay, Beyond the Pleasure Principle. One of the motivations that guided the work of this father of psychoanalysis was his desire to know more about the constitution of the psychic apparatus. In other words, how our psyche works. In his first theories, he came to the conclusion that the structure of the psyche bases its dynamism on the…