Month: June 2008
Doubt in Kierkegaard
Kierkegaard approached doubt in the opposite way of Descartes. Descartes’ methodical doubt is an abstract product of reason, therefore conquerable by a sy...
Reality principle
The previous post highlighted some of Freud’s post-World War I speculation about the reality principle and the death instinct. In short, the pleasure prin...
Freud’s “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”
Freud began edging away from his theory of sexual instincts dominating all neuroses when he witnessed the traumas of World War I, traumas involving no physical ...