Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud

Contents

• Introduction
• Part 1 Under the Rule of the Reality Principle
• Chapter 1 The Hidden Trend in Psychoanalysis
• Chapter 2 The Origin of the Repressed Individual (Ontogenesis)
• Chapter 3 The Origin of Repressive Civilization (Phylogenesis)
• Chapter 4 The Dialectic of Civilization
• Chapter 5 Philosophical Interlude
• Part 2 Beyond the Reality Principle
• Chapter 6 The Historical Limits of the Established Reality Principle
• Chapter 7 Phantasy and Utopia
• Chapter 8 The Images of Orpheus and Narcissus
• Chapter 9 The Aesthetic Dimension
• Chapter 10 The Transformation of Sexuality into Eros
• Chapter 11 Eros and Thanatos
• Chapter 12 Critique of Neo-Freudian Revisionism