SOSC 2571 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Sexual Conflict, Sigmund Freud, For Marx
15 Apr 2016
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Chapter 3 of an outline of psychoanalysis; civilization and its discontents. Going back to the past psychologically, which is the only way to go back to the past. Everything from the past is preserved in the present. Going back to early stages of development, it is constituted in the present. The characteristics of each stage of development is characterized in your personality (narcissism, etc. ) Each stage of development is a source of happiness when you regress, which is a form of pleasure. Our relationship as an individual with society is conflicted. Because civilization is the source of suffering, our relationship with society is conflictual, so we regress in order to find a source of pleasure. Traps the individual in a system based purely on teleological efficiency, rational calculation and control. For the increased rationalization inherent in social life. Central concept that he developed in his critique of political economy.
