{"product_id":"reading-freuds-beyond-the-pleasure-herman-westerink-9781041156222","title":"Reading Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Trauma and Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReading Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle\u003c\/i\u003e presents a new reading of this foundational text, based on the hypothesis that the work was written in two phases.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHerman Westerink explores the idea that Freud put the first version of 1919 aside because he found the conclusions he drew from his line of reasoning difficult if not impossible to accept. The book considers which clinical and theoretical problems Freud wanted to address in the first version of the text, what arguments he developed, and in what way these explorations and arguments resulted in implications he considered problematic. Returning to the text in 1920, Westerink asserts that Freud introduced theories of the life and death drives as a response and possible solution to the problems and implications of his 1919 inquiries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReading Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle \u003c\/i\u003ewill be a significant reference for academics and scholars of Freud, psychoanalytic studies, trauma, critical theory, philosophy and the history of science. It will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Herman Westerink\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1041156227\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781041156222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.46d","brand":"Herman Westerink","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49084009906431,"sku":"9781041156222","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reading-freuds-beyond-the-pleasure-herman-westerink-9781041156222","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}