![]() ![]() Just before I get into Freud, I just want to tell you that I did send the questions already emailed it to you. Actually it’s a shame I have only fifty minutes for it and not two or three lectures. I have to get started because there is, of course, a lot to be said about Sigmund Freud. His argument in Civilization and Its Discontents calls to mind Nietzsche he argues that the repression of urges and drives allows civilization to bloom and flourish, but the same repression is problematic on the level of individual psychology as well as on the level of civilization.įoundations of Modern Social Theory SOCY 151 - Lecture 15 - Freud on Sexuality and CivilizationĬhapter 1. Later, Freud applies these concepts to society as a whole in his books Totem and Taboo, and Civilization and Its Discontents. They develop the ideas of the id, ego, and superego as well as the antithetical drives, the love drive (Eros) and the death drive (Thanatos). We discuss Freud’s early days in Vienna developing psychoanalysis as a clinical approach alongside Jung, Ferenczi, and others in their tight-knit circle. ![]() Lecture 15 - Freud on Sexuality and Civilization Overviewįreud’s brand of critical theory adds important dimensions he argues that we can better understand our consciousness through the process of psychoanalysis–the talking cure, dream work, etc–and we can cure ourselves through this process as well. ![]()
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