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Freud, Civilization and its
Discontents
HTH 1002 History of Though II
Kara Heitz
Freudian Concepts
• Pleasure principle
• Neuroses
• Sublimation
• Childhood development
CaiD: Historical Context
• German: “unease, malaise,
discomfort” “in Civilization”
• “Man’s Discomfort in
Civilization”
• Interwar period (1918-1938)
• Anti-Semitism
• Fascism
• Horrors of WWI
• Malaise in Modernity
Section 3
• What defines
civilization?
• Purposes
• Central problem: how to
maintain the balance
between individual &
society
Section 6 & 7
• Eros – love drive
• Thanatos – death drive
• Internalized discipline
• Fear of loss of love
Section 8
• Guilt as the central
problem of civilization
• Aggressiveness turned
inward
• Motivator for “good”
• Repressing Eros and
Thanatos =
• Neuroses?
• Sublimation?
Enlightenment Skeptics?

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Freud

  • 1. Freud, Civilization and its Discontents HTH 1002 History of Though II Kara Heitz
  • 2. Freudian Concepts • Pleasure principle • Neuroses • Sublimation • Childhood development
  • 3. CaiD: Historical Context • German: “unease, malaise, discomfort” “in Civilization” • “Man’s Discomfort in Civilization” • Interwar period (1918-1938) • Anti-Semitism • Fascism • Horrors of WWI • Malaise in Modernity
  • 4. Section 3 • What defines civilization? • Purposes • Central problem: how to maintain the balance between individual & society
  • 5. Section 6 & 7 • Eros – love drive • Thanatos – death drive • Internalized discipline • Fear of loss of love
  • 6. Section 8 • Guilt as the central problem of civilization • Aggressiveness turned inward • Motivator for “good” • Repressing Eros and Thanatos = • Neuroses? • Sublimation?