Beyond the pleasure principle

The famous Austrian psychologist, psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and neurologist Sigmund Freud is best known as the founder of psychoanalysis. His scientific discoveries had a significant impact on psychology, medicine, sociology, anthropology, literature and art of the 20th century.

“Beyond the Pleasure Principle” is a collection of scientific works that were published in the 20s and 30s of the 20th century and are devoted to the consideration of the concepts of “conscious” and “unconscious”. His conclusion regarding the presence of an unconscious death drive, which was based on the analysis of the behavior of veterans and invalids of the First World War, is still relevant today for the therapy of traumatic neuroses and is a way to understand the nature of obsessive-compulsive neurosis, melancholy and depression.

In his work "I and It", S. Freud reveals the essence of the classical psychoanalytic model of the psyche, the components of which are "It" - the unconscious, "I" - the conscious, or Ego and the Superconscious - the Super-Ego, or Censor, and their interaction.

The article "The Future of an Illusion" - one of the scientist's later works - examines the influence of moral factors on relationships within society and the causes of the emergence of religious beliefs from the perspective of psychoanalysis.

Previously, the Folio publishing house published Sigmund Freud's books "Totem and Taboo" and "The Interpretation of Dreams".