“Beyond The Pleasure Principle” By Sigmund Freud.pptx

A brief analysis of "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" by Sigmund Freud.

1. “Beyond The Pleasure Principle” By Sigmund Freud Hanan Mubarez HUM 177A

2. “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” was one of Sigmund Freud's most popular works In it, he explains the nature of neuroses and the causes behind them Motivation Pleasure principle vs. Reality Principle Human Psyche Id Ego (Pleasure-ego vs. Reality-ego) Superego Dreaming and memory Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

3. Freud and the Scientific Method While Freud’s observation and theories were important because they provided a different way of looking at the brain and explored a sense of self, one of the critiques of his work is that it isn’t exactly scientific In order for theories to be valid and reliable, one criteria they must fulfill is that they must be testable and falsifiable, and many of his theories were not He also made conclusions about the general population based on a small sample

4. Freud’s Impact on Art: Surrealism “The Great Masturbator” Salvador Dali (1929) Freud’s work on the unconscious mind, personality, and the interpretation of dreams had a big influence on the field of art Paved the way for surrealism , art depicting the unconscious mind and the illogical By giving people a different way to view themselves and the world, it gave artists a different way to express themselves and portray the world around them in novel ways

5. “Une Semaine de Bonté: Book IV Oedipus” Max Ernst (1934) “Armor” André Masson (1925)

6. Citizens are constantly in the pursuit of happiness, and one way that is achieved is by engaging in frequent sex Whenever anyone feels any type of negative emotion or simply wants to feel more pleasure, they take a pill called soma “Our Ford-or Freud, as, for some inscrutable reason, he chose to call himself whenever he spoke of psychological matters-Our Freud had been the first to reveal the appalling dangers of family life. The world was full of fathers-was therefore full of misery; full of mothers-therefore of every kind of perversion from sadism to chastity; full of brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts-full of madness and suicide.” (Huxley, 39). Freud’s Impact on Literature: Brave New World

7. Resources Cramer, Dr. Charles, and Dr. Kim Grant. “Surrealism and Psychoanalysis.” Smarthistory , 24 Mar. 2020, https://smarthistory.org/surrealism-and-psychoanalysis/. Freud, Sigmund. On Metapsychology: The Theory of Psychoanalysis: Beyond the Pleasure Principle, the Ego and the ID and Other Works . Vol. 11, Penguin Books, 1991. Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World . Harper Perennial, 2006. Mcleod, Saul. “Freud and the Unconscious Mind.” Unconscious Mind | Simply Psychology , 1 Jan. 1970, https://www.simplypsychology.org/unconscious-mind.html.