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To the question: how is the reality principle produced from its supposed opposite, the pleasure principle? Freud gave an answer which has become, as it were, an ‘official version’. It can be summarised as follows.
Translated by Ben Brewster.
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K. Twardowski, Zur Lehre vom Inhalt and Gegenstand der Vorstellungen. (1894). In his book Meinong (1974), Reinhardt Grossmann has announced an English translation of this work which has not yet, to my knowledge, appeared.
See Pierre Aubenque’s admirable Le Problème de l’être chez Aristote (1972).
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Safouan, M. (1981). Representation and Pleasure. In: MacCabe, C. (eds) The Talking Cure. Language, Discourse, Society Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16456-1_4
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