Author misrepresents the Pleasure Principle From: The Boston Globe | Date: October 4, 1998 | Copyright 1998 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

I am a grown woman with adult children. I am not, to my knowledge, homosexual. My concern in John D'Emilio's review of "The Pleasure Principle" (Books, Aug. 30) is that the reviewer uncritically accepts the author's complete misrepresentation of the Pleasure Principle as originally used by Freud. Freud's Pleasure Principle was contrasted with the Reality Principle; the crux of the difference is not what is family based, but rather the difference between rational thinking and magic, superstiti...