Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud

Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud

by Herbert Marcuse
Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud

Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud

by Herbert Marcuse

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Overview

"A philosophical critique of psychoanalysis that takes psychoanalysis seriously but not as unchallengeable dogma. . . . The most significant general treatment of psychoanalytic theory since Freud himself ceased publication."—Clyde Kluckhohn, The New York Times


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780807096956
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 09/29/2015
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 312
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) was born in Berlin and educated at the universities of Berlin and Freiburg. He fled Germany in 1933 and arrived in the United States in 1934. Marcuse taught at Columbia, Harvard, Brandeis, and the University of California, San Diego, where he met Andrew Feenberg and William Leiss as graduate students. He is the author of numerous books, including One-Dimensional Man and Eros and Civilization.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Part 1 Under the Rule of the Reality Principle; Chapter 1 The Hidden Trend in Psychoanalysis; Chapter 2 The Origin of the Repressed Individual (Ontogenesis); Chapter 3 The Origin of Repressive Civilization (Phylogenesis); Chapter 4 The Dialectic of Civilization; Chapter 5 Philosophical Interlude; Part 2 Beyond the Reality Principle; Chapter 6 The Historical Limits of the Established Reality Principle; Chapter 7 Phantasy and Utopia; Chapter 8 The Images of Orpheus and Narcissus; Chapter 9 The Aesthetic Dimension; Chapter 10 The Transformation of Sexuality into Eros; Chapter 11 Eros and Thanatos; Chapter 12 Critique of Neo-Freudian Revisionism;
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