COMS 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gustave Le Bon, Sigmund Freud, Economic Determinism
13 Oct 2018
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This week: modern life is a problem because things that we have now, don"t make our lives any better. The social relations are local (everybody knows everyone) and there are high disagrees of trust. Robert e. park: newspapers now perform what people use to do in order to get news around, demonstrates the shift in the rural live (12th slide) Markets for advertising: new problems about how to live together , which place emphasis on communication, this is the context in which to best appreciate two of modernity"s most important theorists: marx and freud (most argued and debated people) Id: animal desires- because it feels good (subconscious: ego: sense of self in the world, the manages your id, superego: insensitive judgement. Freud and marx: 2 people that are asking what has become of society after the transition. Marx: people cannot be them natural self because economy is changing what we can do.
