the Pleasure Principle because the idea of a drive towards death seemed strange. References Further reading Jacques Derrida's The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond Bernard Stiegler's "Desire and Knowledge: The Dead Seize the Living" External links Beyond the Pleasure Principle (C. J. M. Hubback, trans., 1922.) "Death Instincts" ; "Thanatos"; "Nirvana Principle"; "Compulsion to Repeat" ("Repetition compulsion"). Essays by Sigmund Freud History of psychology 1920 essays