'Todd Dufresne's book sets a new standard for critical editions of Freud. In addition to the lucid new English translation by Gregory C. Richter, there is a splendidly informative introduction, related excerpts from Freud's other works, and a provocative appendix of critical essays, including contributions from Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Marcuse, Derrida, and Zizek, that challenge and destabilize this 'metaphysical' essay of Freud's middle period. The pleasures of the text are rich and complex; in it we see Freud, as Dufresne aptly notes, moving 'beyond psychoanalysis, in philosophy'a journey of joyful intellectual homecoming.'Mark KingwellUniversity of Toronto'Freud's strange and conceptually adventurous Beyond the Pleasure Principle carves out a wholly original space between philosophy, psychology, and biologya space we still find difficult to occupy, but one that opens up a range of challenging theoretical ideas from which we can continue to learn. In this new edition, Todd Dufresne expertly re-introduces us to a book that has spawned many important philosophical responses and interventions over the past half-century and reminds us why it is such a key book in Freud's oeuvre. Gregory C. Richter's superb new translation and Dufresne's fantastic choice of both older theories on which Freud draws and newer thinkers who draw on Freud make this a book that anyone interested in contemporary philosophy and critical theory should add to their libraries and their classrooms.'Imre Szeman, Canada Research Chair in Cultural StudiesUniversity of Alberta