Taylor Adkins - Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Frequent contributor Taylor Adkins discusses Sigmund Freud's 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle'. Topics include death in single-cell organisms, Freud's concept of individuation, eros and complexity in distributed systems, Freud and Lacan's views on the unconscious, the distinction between Lacanian death drive and desire, the intensity of information, the concept of death and its relationship to life, the influence of 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle' on later thought, and the connections between love, crying, and passion.