Beyond the Pleasure Principle

By: Sigmund Freud

Narrated by: Deaver Brown

Freud's landmark work about the pleasure principle covering ancient times to his own: psychology, arts, literature, science, biology, and social science.

Public Domain (P)2019 Deaver Brown

Recording of this classic was abysmal

The music was distracting and in the middle of chapter four, the narrator shouts the f word because he tripped over his reading. I’m not sure he understood what he was reading. I wished I’d spent more on a different rendition.

Substantial changes to the text

In order, I suppose, to make this text more palatable and easier to understand substantial changes have been made to it; many not for the better, and many that were unnecessary. These not so subtle changes alter the meaning of Freud's thoughts thus providing the listener with a diluted manuscript. Not to mention that the background music is atrocious and completely unnecessary and distracting. Why does a book need a backing track anyway?

The audio sucks

Don’t buy this it’s terrible. Don’t waste your money. The music they play is annoying and the recording is low grade

Uggh what is this insane background music throughout the entire book?

Horrible to have music in the background the whole time. Such a distraction front he text