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Freud, the Contemporary Super-ego, and Western Morality An Essay on Psychopolitics
By Giosuè Ghisalberti
Copyright 2024
262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
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Freud, the Contemporary Super-ego, and Western Morality traces the origins of the relationship between the morality of the super-ego and the destructive impulse of the death drive in the liberal democracies of the 21st century.
Giosuè Ghisalberti begins by refuting the analysis by contemporary social theorists of the phenomenon described as "the return of the religious," presenting instead a... Read more
Introduction 1. The Regressive Psychology of Groups 2. The Powers of the Super-ego and the Death Drive 3. The Present of Our Illusions 4. The Moral Coercions of Liberalism
Biography
Giosuè Ghisalberti is a professor of philosophy at Humber College, Toronto, Canada.
