Description
Product ID: | 9780823298280 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Eros |
Subtitle: | Beyond the Death Drive |
Authors: | Author: Rosaura Martinez Ruiz, Ramsey McGlazer |
Page Count: | 208 |
Subjects: | Philosophy, Philosophy, History of ideas, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, History of ideas, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating This book elaborates the political and intimate possibilities of going beyond the tendency toward destruction that Freud identified in human nature. Martinez argues that Eros is the force that can help us resist this destructive drive, and that resistance must take the form of unceasing ethical vigilance and political action. Eros considers a promise left unfulfilled in Sigmund Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle. Rosaura Martínez Ruiz argues that when the pleasure principle comes into contact with the death drive (the human tendency toward aggression or cruelty), the psyche can take detours that, without going beyond the limit of the pleasure principle, can nevertheless defer it. Eros reflects on these deviations of the pleasure principle, in the political sphere and in the intimate realm. |
Imprint Name: | Fordham University Press |
Publisher Name: | Fordham University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2021-10-05 |