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Society Modifying Mental Life - The Digital Dialogue - 0 views

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Freud Eros Individual

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  This post invites us to consider the meaning of Eros in Civilization and Its Discontents more seriously. Let's look at pp. 55-7 and think about the way Eros fits into the distinction between the Life Drive and the Death instinct (80ff).
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This post invites us to consider the meaning of Eros in Civilization and Its Discontents more seriously. Let's look at pp. 55-7 and think about the way Eros fits into the distinction between the Life Drive and the Death instinct (80ff).</div>
  
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the super ego
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human disposition toward social connectivity called Eros, and that "the process of civilization is a modification which the vital processes experience under the influence of a task set by Eros.
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to discuss the ways in which we are affected in our day-to-day lives by social standards that are outside of our control
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Negative and Positive Freedom in Freud - The Digital Dialogue - 1 views

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Freud Individual Freedom

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  Let's talk about the understanding of the individual that underwrites these points. The reference to Contract Theory here is important - is Freud's understanding of the individual in the state of nature liberal in the traditional sense?
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Let's talk about the understanding of the individual that underwrites these points. The reference to Contract Theory here is important - is Freud's understanding of the individual in the state of nature liberal in the traditional sense?</div>
  
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Freud seems to be taking a perspective in line with social contract theory
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Digital Dialogue 18: Political Unconscious - Socratic Politics in Digital Dialogue - 0 views

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Freud Unconscious

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This episode of the Digitial Dialogue might be helpful for students interested in thinking about the political implications of Freud's work in Civilization and its Discontents.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This episode of the Digitial Dialogue might be helpful for students interested in thinking about the political implications of Freud's work in Civilization and its Discontents.</div>

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Angelus Novus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

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Benjamin History

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"A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress."</div>

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Chris Long on 31 Aug 10

In case anyone was interested in why I selected Klee's painting for the icon for this group.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">In case anyone was interested in why I selected Klee's painting for the icon for this group.</div>

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Chris Long

I am Associate Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Education and Professor of Philosophy and Classics at the Pennsylvania State University. My research focuses on Ancient Greek Philosophy and contemporary Continental Philosophy. I am interested in the way social media is transforming the nature ...