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forces 'beyond' the pleasure principle." He found exceptions to the universal power of the pleasure principle--"situations ... with which the pleasure principle cannot cope adequately"--in four main areas: children's games, as exemplified in his grandson's famous "fort-da" game; "the recurrent dreams of war neurotics ...; the pattern of self-injuring behaviour that can be traced through the lives of certain people ["fate neurosis"]; the tendency of many patients in psycho-analysis to act out over and over again unpleasant experiences

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