30th November – 5th December 2020
2020 marked 100 years since the publication of Sigmund Freud’s landmark text Beyond the Pleasure Principle. The publication of this work marked a significant moment in his theoretical development, it is within these pages that Freud formulated the dialectic between Eros and Thanatos within the human psyche.
Glasgow School of Art and The Drouth marked the occasion with a week-long online programme which will reached its climax on Saturday 5th December with an online symposium.
Throughout the week, we published, hosted and curated creative and critical gestures which respond to Beyond the Pleasure Principle and its afterlives, from the vantage point of our contemporary moment. This body of the work was published by The Drouth as part of our week-long séance with the legacy of Freud and this significant text.
Our scope was open and polymorphous and as we were embracing academic, theoretical, critical, artistic and creative reflections, reassessments, contestations and comments in textual, visual and multimedia form. As a publication which takes the interrogation of thought and culture seriously, the aim was always to encourage the expression of ideas which transgress the boundaries of discipline, form and convention.
Glasgow School of Art and The Drouth marked the occasion with a week-long online programme which will reached its climax on Saturday 5th December with an online symposium.
Throughout the week, we published, hosted and curated creative and critical gestures which respond to Beyond the Pleasure Principle and its afterlives, from the vantage point of our contemporary moment. This body of the work was published by The Drouth as part of our week-long séance with the legacy of Freud and this significant text.
Our scope was open and polymorphous and as we were embracing academic, theoretical, critical, artistic and creative reflections, reassessments, contestations and comments in textual, visual and multimedia form. As a publication which takes the interrogation of thought and culture seriously, the aim was always to encourage the expression of ideas which transgress the boundaries of discipline, form and convention.
