Representation and pleasure

Moustapha Safouan

pp. 75-89

in: Colin MacCabe (ed), The talking cure, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1981

Abstract

To the question: how is the reality principle produced from its supposed opposite, the pleasure principle? Freud gave an answer which has become, as it were, an "official version". It can be summarised as follows.

Cited authors

Freud Sigmund