Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud

by Herbert Marcuse

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807015551
Publisher:	Beacon Press
Publication date:	09/15/1974
Series:	Beacon Classics , #5
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.39(w) x 7.97(h) x 0.64(d)

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;

Editorial Reviews

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

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