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?