Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Sigmund Freud was the Austrian neurologist who is considered to be the founder of psychoanalysis. Freud also contributed greatly to the analysis of dreams and sexuality. Freud's work remains very popular and relevant today. In Beyond the Pleasure Principle Freud discusses the human struggle between the the drives of Eros and Thanatos. The drive of Eros produces such things as creativity, harmony, and sexual connection while Thanatos brings about self-destruction, aggression and compulsion.