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Quotation from Beyond the Pleasure Principle by Sigmund Freud
“This was therefore the complete game, disappearance and return, the first act being the only one generally observed by the onlookers, and the one untiringly repeated by the child as a game for its own sake, although the greater pleasure unquestionably attached to the second act”
Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Ch. II, trans. C. J. M. Hubback (1922)
The fort-da observation: the child's reel game, in which the painful half is repeated more than the joyful one, becomes evidence for something beyond pleasure.
Citation: "This was therefore the complete game, disappearance and return, the first act being the only one generally observed by the onlookers, and the one untiringly repeated by the child as a game for its own sake, although the greater pleasure unquestionably attached to the second act" — Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Ch. II, trans. C. J. M. Hubback (1922). (id freud-beyond-the-pleasure-principle-q2)
