42 | Going Beyond the Pleasure Principle with Freud
What's Left of Philosophy
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What Is the Pleasure Principle?
Pleasure principle is a tendency toward neutralizing differences and returning to a zero state, says fred. Pleasure would be the ability to control the amount of stimuli that is impinging upon one. There is yo a type of pain in a pleasure that overcomes the subject, leads them into ecstasy. And so what he seems to be talking about with the pleasure principle isYo pleasure is a state of rest, as a state of minimal disturbance. But for the contradiction ith attention, there is that thatState of minimal disturbance starts to look frighteningly close to a state of death.
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