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Beyond the Pleasure Principle: A speculative essay on Freud

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    Brayton Polka Ph.D. (Associate Professor)

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Polka, B. Beyond the Pleasure Principle: A speculative essay on Freud. Am J Psychoanal 49, 297–309 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01252258

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