The Ego, The Body, And Pain

‘We should willingly acknowledge our indebtedness to any philosophical or psychological theory that could tell us the meaning of these feelings of pleasure and ‘pain’ which affect us so powerfully. Unfortunately no theory of any value is forthcoming. It is the obscurest and least penetrable region of psychic life, and while it is impossible for us to avoid touching on it, the most elastic hypothesis will be, to my mind, the best. We have decided to consider pleasure and ‘pain’ in relation to the quantity of excitation present in psychic life-and not confined in any way-along such lines that ‘pain’ corresponds with an increase and pleasure with a decrease in this quantity.’ S. Freud (Beyond the Pleasure Principle)

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• Distinction between mental pain and psychic suffering as separate entities in the patient's experience

  Manuela Fleming•International Forum of…•2006

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• Psychosomatic Avoidance of Conflict in Back Pain

  Stanley J Coen, John E Sarno•Journal of the American Academy…•1989

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• From struggle for pleasure to pleasure in struggling

  Open Access•Rui Aragão Oliveira•The American Journal of…•2025

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• Pain reactions in a group of institutionalized schizophrenic children

  William Goldfarb•American Journal of Orthopsychiatry•1958

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• The Mutual Influences in the Development of Ego and Id

  Heinz Hartmann•The Psychoanalytic Study of the…•1952

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• Psychiatric Aspects of Pain

  Leo Rangell•Psychosomatic Medicine•1953

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• Early Development of the Ego

  Ives Hendrick•The Psychoanalytic Quarterly•1951

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• Anxiety, Trauma, and Shock

  Max M Stern•The Psychoanalytic Quarterly•1951

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• Instinct and The Ego during Infancy

  Ives Hendrick•The Psychoanalytic Quarterly•1942

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• Clinical Fragments

  Dorian Feigenbaum•The Psychoanalytic Quarterly•1934

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• The Discussion of the ‘Instinct to Master

  Ives Hendrick•The Psychoanalytic Quarterly•1943

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• Work and the Pleasure Principle

  Ives Hendrick•The Psychoanalytic Quarterly•1943

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• On Denial of Objective Sources of Anxiety and ‘Pain

  DAVID L RUBINFINE•The Psychoanalytic Quarterly•1952

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