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Beyond the Pleasure Principle

By: Sigmund Freud
Narrated by: Joe Gomez
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This 1920 essay by Sigmund Freud is considered to be one of his most complex writings. "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" marks a major departure in his theoretical approach. Freud had previously attributed most human behaviour to the sexual instinct (Eros or libido). In this essay, he went beyond the pleasure principle by adding the death drive (thanatos) as another instigator of human behavior.

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Public Domain (P)2019 Museum Audiobooks Psychology Psychology & Mental Health
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me gustó, el narrador estuvo bien compren arma 3 que está en rebajas en steam

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The narrator clearly does not understand the work, or even how sentences should be read. Stunted and distracting from the work.

Reader is awful

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I am a professor who previewed this to try to see if I could assign it to students and this is an absolutely abysmal reading. It literally hasn't been edited (the reader stops and restarts several times), and he absolutely butchers the German. To be blunt, he also butchers the English, and mispronounces common words (circuitous, inexorable) REPEATEDLY. Also the prosody just sucks and actually makes it really hard to follow the line of thought. He obviously had no idea what Freud was talking about, because he breaks up the sentences in ways that make it really hard to follow Freud's line of thought. Also, the translation is weird and leaves somethings untranslated (which is totally befuddling if you don't, as I do, know the original extermely well--for example, the abbreviation for consciousness--BW for Bewusstsein--is just read aloud in the English version as "BW"). Audible, you really need to develop a higher ed division and hire people to read who actually know the texts in question, and who can present them in a way respectable enough for a professor to assign. As is, I was going to assign this to 200 students and now will just make them read the print version.

Seminal Text, Atrocious Reading

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