In the theory of psychoanalysis we have no hesitation in assuming that the course taken by
mental events is automatically regulated by the pleasure principle. We believe, that is to say, …

… and practice as they impact the contextual experience of pleasure, has the potential to
open up new ways of thinking about pleasure and its place in the mediation of all drug related …

… textbook candidates for pleasure generators, including classic pleasure electrodes and the
… not generate pleasure after all. These emerging insights into brain pleasure mechanisms …

… simply modify the pleasure principle such that avoiding pain becomes almost equal in
importance to gaining pleasure. Thus, Freud's proposal to move beyond the pleasure principle did …

… pleasure and why there are reasons to do so. That we may prefer and choose something for
its pleasure suggests that there are facts about pleasure … sometimes taken pleasure to be a …

… reproductive and pleasurable aspects of sex would be entirely distinct (provided that we
focus exclusively on orgasmic pleasure and neglect the precedent pleasure that accompanies …

… Fechner has advocated a conception of pleasure and ‗pain‘ … bear a relation to pleasure or
―pain‖, pleasure or ―pain‖ … of consciousness is charged with pleasure in proportion as it …

… (2) The second obstacle is that because everybody is able to experience pleasure, we tend
… own sensations of pleasure. Two main methods allow a scientific approach to pleasure. The …

Written in 1920, Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle was his attempt to come to terms
with his realization that more seemed at work in the mind and in human life than a drive for …

What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic
and theorist Roland Barthes's answers to these questions constitute" perhaps for the first …