Eros i cywilizacja

Wprowadzenie

Marcuse published the book in Boston in 1955, subtitled “A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud”. He accepts Freud’s claim that civilisation requires the repression of drives but distinguishes necessary repression from “surplus repression” imposed by domination, and the reality principle from its historical form, the “performance principle” of a society organised around alienated labour. Since technology could greatly reduce necessary labour, a non-repressive civilisation is conceivable; its mythical figures are Orpheus and Narcissus rather than Prometheus. An epilogue attacks the “revisionist” psychoanalysts around Erich Fromm, which led to a public dispute. In the 1960s the book became a key text of the student movement.

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Odpowiada na

• Kultura jako źródło cierpień1930 · Sigmund Freud

Krytykowane w

• Wola wiedzy (Historia seksualności, t. 1)1976 · Michel Foucault

Więcej dzieł: Herbert Marcuse

• 1964Człowiek jednowymiarowy