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Eros and civilization : a philosophical inquiry into Freud by Freud, Sigmund; Freud, Sigmund; Marcuse, Herbert is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"A philosophical critique of psychoanalysis that takes psychoanalysis seriously but not as unchallengeable dogma. . . . The most significant general treatment of psychoanalytic theory since Freud himself ceased publication."—Clyde Kluckhohn,  The New York Times Review A philosophical critique of psychoanalysis that takes psychoanalysis seriously but not as unchallengeable dogma. . . . The most significant general treatment of psychoanalytic theory since Freud himself ceased publication. --Clyde Kluckhohn, The New York Times About the Author Herbert Marcuse  (1898-1979) was born in Berlin and educated at the universities of Berlin and Freiburg. He fled Germany in 1933 and arrived in the United States in 1934. Marcuse taught at Columbia, Harvard, Brandeis, and the University of California, San Diego, where he met Andrew Feenberg and William Leiss as graduate students. He is the author of numerous books, including  One-Dimensional Man  and  Eros and Civilization. In this classic work, Herbert Marcuse takes as his starting point Freud's statement that civilization is based on the permanent subjugation of the human instincts, his reconstruction of the prehistory of mankind - to an i

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Author
Freud, Sigmund; Freud, Sigmund; Marcuse, Herbert
Publisher
Routledge
Published
1998
Language
EN
ISBN
9781138137950
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Psychology, History, Sociology
Rating
3.9 / 5 (2,240 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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