Soul, Body, Pleasure

Behavior that Freud characterizes as 'repetition compulsion' convinces him to abandon the thesis that the Id is governed by the Pleasure Principle, since there seems to be no Pleasure involved in it, and to consider it as evidence of a Death Drive.  However, it can also be interpreted as a different vacillation in his theory.  For, Pleasure is a Phenomenon, i. e. an event in Consciousness, so, when taken as unrelated to some physical event, e. g. gratification in eating vs. the addition of vital nutrients to the organism, it is an indication of a Soul-Body split.  In contrast, Repetition Compulsion is strictly physical, and, hence, if taken as a Psychic event, as evidence of a Soul-Body unity, but not that of a 'death drive'.  So, Freud's historically significant, as has been previously discussed, introduction of the latter, may be based on a faulty inference from the apparent absence of Pleasure in some behavior.