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    "title": "Beyond the Pleasure Principle",
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            "text": "VII.\n\nWenn es wirklich ein so allgemeiner Charakter der Triebe ist, daß sie einen früheren Zustand wiederherstellen wollen, so dürfen wir uns nicht darüber verwundern, daß im Seelenleben so viele Vorgänge sich unabhängig vom Lustprinzip vollziehen. Dieser Charakter würde sich jedem Partialtrieb mitteilen und sich in seinem Falle auf die Wiedererreichung einer bestimmten Station des Entwicklungsweges beziehen. Aber all dies, worüber das Lustprinzip noch keine Macht bekommen hat, brauchte darum noch nicht im Gegensatz zu ihm zu stehen, und die Aufgabe ist noch ungelöst, das Verhältnis der triebhaften Wiederholungsvorgänge zur Herrschaft des Lustprinzips zu bestimmen.\n\nWir haben es als eine der frühesten und wichtigsten Funktionen des seelischen Apparates erkannt, die anlangenden Triebregungen zu »binden«, den in ihnen herrschenden Primärvorgang durch den Sekundärvorgang zu ersetzen, ihre frei bewegliche Besetzungsenergie in vorwiegend ruhende (tonische) Besetzung umzuwandeln. Während dieser Umsetzung kann auf die Entwicklung von Unlust nicht Rücksicht genommen werden, allein das Lustprinzip wird dadurch nicht aufgehoben. Die Umsetzung geschieht vielmehr im Dienste des Lustprinzips; die Bindung ist ein vorbereitender Akt, der die Herrschaft des Lustprinzips einleitet und sichert.\n\nTrennen wir Funktion und Tendenz schärfer voneinander, als wir es bisher getan haben. Das Lustprinzip ist dann eine Tendenz, welche im Dienste einer Funktion steht, der es zufällt, den seelischen Apparat überhaupt erregungslos zu machen, oder den Betrag der Erregung in ihm konstant oder möglichst niedrig zu erhalten. Wir können uns noch für keine dieser Fassungen sicher entscheiden, aber wir merken, daß die so bestimmte 63 Funktion Anteil hätte an dem allgemeinsten Streben alles Lebenden, zur Ruhe der anorganischen Welt zurückzukehren. Wir haben alle erfahren, daß die größte uns erreichbare Lust, die des Sexualaktes, mit dem momentanen Erlöschen einer hochgesteigerten Erregung verbunden ist. Die Bindung der Triebregung wäre aber eine vorbereitende Funktion, welche die Erregung für ihre endgültige Erledigung in der Abfuhrlust zurichten soll.",
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            "text": "VII.\n\nIf drives generally seek to restore an earlier state, we should not be surprised that so many mental processes occur independently of the pleasure principle. This character would belong to every component drive and concern its recovery of a particular station on the path of development. Yet everything over which the pleasure principle has not gained power need not oppose it. The relation between instinctual processes of repetition and the pleasure principle's dominion remains unresolved.\n\nWe have recognized as one of the mental apparatus's earliest and most important functions the “binding” of arriving drive impulses: replacing their primary process with the secondary process and transforming their freely mobile cathectic energy into a predominantly quiescent (tonic) cathexis. During this transformation, the development of unpleasure cannot be considered, yet the pleasure principle is not abolished. Rather, the transformation serves it; binding is a preparatory act that introduces and secures its dominion.\n\nLet us distinguish function from tendency more sharply. The pleasure principle is then a tendency serving a function whose task is to make the mental apparatus altogether free of excitation, or to keep its amount of excitation constant or as low as possible. We cannot yet choose confidently among these formulations, but the function so defined would share in the most universal striving of all living things: to return to the repose of the inorganic world. We have all experienced that our greatest attainable pleasure, that of the sexual act, accompanies the momentary extinction of greatly heightened excitation. Binding the drive impulse, however, would be a preparatory function making excitation ready for its final disposal in the pleasure of discharge.",
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            "text": "VII.\n\nS’il est vraiment un caractère aussi général des pulsions que de vouloir rétablir un état antérieur, nous ne devons pas nous étonner que, dans la vie psychique, tant de processus s’accomplissent indépendamment du principe de plaisir. Ce caractère se communiquerait à chaque pulsion partielle et se rapporterait, dans son cas, au retour à une étape déterminée de la voie de développement. Mais tout ce sur quoi le principe de plaisir n’a pas encore acquis de pouvoir ne devrait pas pour autant s’opposer à lui, et la tâche qui consiste à déterminer le rapport des processus pulsionnels de répétition à la domination du principe de plaisir reste irrésolue.\n\nNous avons reconnu que l’une des fonctions les plus précoces et les plus importantes de l’appareil psychique consiste à «lier» les motions pulsionnelles qui lui parviennent, à remplacer par le processus secondaire le processus primaire qui règne en elles, à transformer leur énergie d’investissement librement mobile en investissement principalement quiescent (tonique). Pendant cette transformation, il ne peut être tenu compte du développement du déplaisir, mais le principe de plaisir n’en est pas pour autant supprimé. La transformation s’accomplit bien plutôt au service du principe de plaisir; la liaison est un acte préparatoire qui inaugure et assure la domination du principe de plaisir.\n\nSéparons plus nettement la fonction de la tendance que nous ne l’avons fait jusqu’ici. Le principe de plaisir est alors une tendance qui se trouve au service d’une fonction chargée de soustraire entièrement l’appareil psychique à l’excitation, ou de maintenir constante ou aussi basse que possible la quantité d’excitation qu’il contient. Nous ne pouvons encore nous prononcer avec certitude en faveur de l’une de ces formulations, mais nous remarquons que la fonction ainsi définie 63 participerait de l’aspiration la plus générale de tout ce qui vit à retourner au repos du monde inorganique. Nous avons tous fait l’expérience que le plus grand plaisir qui nous soit accessible, celui de l’acte sexuel, est lié à l’extinction momentanée d’une excitation portée à un très haut degré. Mais la liaison de la motion pulsionnelle serait une fonction préparatoire destinée à apprêter l’excitation pour son règlement définitif dans le plaisir de décharge.",
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