The Pleasure Principle - Sigmund Freud

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Freud's pillar's of Psychoanalysis, the Pleasure Principle, and the Reality Principle were a practical test to assess a patient's grip on reality. Between scales of neurosis or psychosis, people could avoid reality at differing levels of disassociation, which was a depressing realization for the one caught in the trap. Yet there was hope precisely because the same principles could be used as a standard of psychological health, and become a goal for researchers and therapists to help patients achieve it.

Intro: 0:00
Heuristics: 1:03
The Pleasure Principle: 2:30
The Reality Principle: 4:37
Consciousness, Attention, Memory, and Action: 5:46
Fantasy: 8:41
The principles in childhood sexual development: 10:15
A weak spot found: 11:48
Delay of gratification: 13:02
The principles in our institutions: 14:16
Art: 15:48
Psychosis and Paranoia: 16:15
Future influences: 18:13
Outro: 19:17

Resources:

Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental Functioning - Sigmund Freud: Kindle: https://amzn.to/2JoZ8Fw Paperback: https://amzn.to/37lJzH5

The Unconscious - Sigmund Freud: Kindle: https://amzn.to/3ljk0vc Paperback: https://amzn.to/36fokat

The Art of Seeing: An Interpretation of the Aesthetic Encounter ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Rick E. Robinson: Paperback: https://amzn.to/2Jbn8fM

Rhetoric – Aristotle – Book I, Chapter 11.

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0060%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D11

Harold P. Blum (2004) Beneath and Beyond the “Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental Functioning”, The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 59:1, 240-257, DOI: 10.1080/00797308.2004.11800740

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