Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud
In this classic work, Herbert Marcuse takes as his starting point Freud's statement that civilization is based on the permanent subjugation of the human instincts, his reconstruction of the prehistory of mankind - to an interpretation of the basic trends of western civilization, stressing the philosophical and sociological implications. |
Contents
The Hidden Trend in Psychoanalysis | 11 |
The Origin of the Repressed Individual Ontogenesis | 21 |
The Origin of Repressive Civilization Phylogenesis | 55 |
The Dialectic of Civilization | 78 |
Philosophical Interlude | 106 |
BEYOND THE REALITY PRINCIPLE | 127 |
The Historical Limits of the Established Reality Principle | 129 |
Phantasy and Utopia | 140 |
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Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry Into Freud, Volume 120 Herbert Marcuse Limited preview - 1955 |
Common terms and phrases
aesthetic aggression alienated labor Ananke antagonistic basic beauty become biological ciple civiliza cognitive Collected Papers conception conflict consciousness constraints Critique Critique of Judgment culture death instinct destructive domination dynamic energy Eros erotic eternal return external faculties force freedom Freud's theory Freudian Fromm fulfillment function gratification happiness historical Hogarth Press human existence hypothesis Ibid idea impulses individual instinctual structure liberation libido mature ment mental apparatus morality Moses and Monotheism Narcissus nature necessity negation Neo-Freudian Nirvana Nirvana principle notion object Oedipus Oedipus complex organization original Orpheus Otto Rank performance principle personality phantasy philosophy play pleasure principle primal horde productive progress Psychoanalysis psychology rational reality principle realm reason renunciation repressive revisionist satisfaction seems sense of guilt sensuousness sex instincts sexuality sion social society sociological stage stincts stinctual striving struggle for existence sublimation superego surplus-repression taboos tion tive transformation ture unconscious York