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Sigmund Freud's 20th Century
CIVILIZATION
& THE SELF
FREUD'S
CIVILIZATION
"The lust for aggression and destruction is certainly included; the innumerable cruelties of history and man's daily life confirm its prevalence and strength."
- Sigmund Freud, Why War?
CIVILIZATION is not an expression of progress, but a construction to control the dangerous forces of human instinct. Humans should never be allowed to truly express themselves because it is too dangerous, thus they will always be discontent.
Civilization “serve[s] two purposes — namely to protect men against nature and to adjust their mutual relations”
- Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
FREUD
CONSUMERISM
CONSUMERISM
DEMOCRACY
DEMOCRACY
“Of a sampled 262 political scientists from the American Political Science Association, 52.7% reported that Freud’s concepts of the unconscious and repression influenced their academic work greatly.”
"Business fosters and encourages Freudian thought of internal desires that propagate throughout society. Marketing appeals to the unconscious.
But politics shouldn't be about unconscious manipulation, it should ENGAGE CITIZENS at the rational level."
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