Later, Freud applies these concepts to society as a whole in his books Totem and Taboo, and Civilization and Its Discontents. They develop the ideas of the id, ego, and superego as well as the antithetical drives, the love drive (Eros) and the death drive (Thanatos). We discuss Freud’s early days in Vienna developing psychoanalysis as a clinical approach alongside Jung, Ferenczi, and others in their tight-knit circle. Lecture 15 - Freud on Sexuality and Civilization Overviewįreud’s brand of critical theory adds important dimensions he argues that we can better understand our consciousness through the process of psychoanalysis–the talking cure, dream work, etc–and we can cure ourselves through this process as well.
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