in Freud's view we are driven by the desire for pleasure as well as by the desire to avoid pain. But the pursuit of pleasure has never been a simple thing. Plea

For many illusions it is easy to find owners—people who proudly declare their belief in things such as life after death, human reason, or the self-regulation

This book presents Freud's theory of the mind as an organic whole, built from first principles and developing in sophistication over time.

A brilliant and thought-provoking examination of the complicated relationship between gay and mainstream culture--and a finalist for the 1998 Lambda Literary Aw

Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle constitutes a major landmark and a real turning point in the evolution of psychoanalytic theory. Pushing aside the primacy