Notes on Eros and Civilization
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alienation / death drive / Eros / eros and civilzation / freud / herbert marcuse / metaphysics / pleasure / psychology / reality / superego / unconscious
Notes on Eros and Civilization In Eros and Civilization, Herbert Marcuse presents Freud at the level of metaphysical psychology. That is: we find Freud engaged in overturning âconventionalâ metaphysics through psychoanalysis — methodically substituting pleasure and imagination for reason and logic — but paradoxically in so doing he produces a âtheoreticalâ practice which, through its âdiagnosticâ methodologies and even in its âaxiomaticâ structure, still reflect profoundly traditional conceptions of humanity. For example, Freud analyzes the […]