Civilization and Its Discontents

By S. Freud. Princeton Readings in Political Thought, 2018

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During the summer of 1929, Freud worked on what became this seminal volume of twentieth-century thought. It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he had been developing since the turn of the century. It is both witness and tribute to the late theory of mind - the so-called structural theory, with its stress on aggression, indeed the death drive, as the pitiless adversary of eros.

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Quality of Acute Psychedelic Experience Predicts Therapeutic Efficacy of Psilocybin for Treatment-Resistant Depression (2018, methodology): “That anxiety arises in parallel with psychological struggle is resonant with principles of psychoanalytic theory (Sandison, 1961), as can be seen in the choice of terms for the “DED” and “OBN” factors of the ASC— both of which invoke constructs that can be traced to Freud (1929, 1962).”
Self-Consciousness, Mental Agency, and the Clinical Psychopathology of Thought Insertion (2009, background): “(Freud 1962) Freud seems to be saying that introspection and subjectivity are not inseparable.”
A Look at the Ecotherapy Research Evidence (2009, positive): “From the beginning it sought to reconnect the patient or client with the roots of an instinctual nature repressed by the demands of civilization (Freud, 2005).”
The Needs-Affordances-Features Perspective for the Use of Social Media (2018, neutral): “Similarly, Freud (1930), states that the development of the individual seems to be a product of the interaction between two urges, the urge toward happiness, which we usually call “egoistic”, and the urge toward union with others in the community, which we call “altruistic” (p. 140).”
The Identity Statuses: Origins, Meanings, and Interpretations (2011, positive): “The relationship between the individual and society, rather than being the primarily antagonistic one described by Freud (1930, 1961), was a coconstructive one.”
The Ability Model of Emotional Intelligence: Principles and Updates (2016, background): “Personal intelligence is a hot intelligence because our sense of self is a primary source of inner pleasure and pain—ranging from self-satisfaction and pride on the positive side to self-loathing and suicidal thoughts and action on the negative side (Freud, 1962; Greenwald, 1980).”
Anger and Psychopathology (2010, neutral): “The classic psychoanalytic position on aggression is that “outward aggression is an expression of the death instinct in the service of Eros,” and that “any restrictions of aggression directed outwards increases self-destruction” (Freud, 1930, p. 66).”
Building a Sustainable Model of Human Energy in Organizations: Exploring the Critical Role of Resources (2012, background): “A dynamic model of human energy in organizations also makes it possible to address another problem in the energy literatures: conflicting assumptions about the scarcity (e.g. Freud, 1961) or abundance (e.g. Durkheim, 1954 [1912]) of human energy.”
Energizing Learning: The Instructional Power of Conflict (2009, background): “A cooperative orientation produces more creative syntheses than do individualistic (Gruber, 2006) or competitive (Carnevale & Probst, 1998) orientations. Competition especially leads to restricted judgment, reduced awareness of complexity, inability to consider alternative perspectives, and less cre”
What’s Wrong with Morality? (2011, positive): “The problem is not only that moral judgment can be bad, countervailing strong situational pressures, and many means of disengagement, but also that the goal is not to actually be moral, only to be seen by others—and to see oneself—as moral (Freud, 1930/1961; Jones & Pittman, 1982).”
Everyday temptations: an experience sampling study of desire, conflict, and self-control. (2012, neutral): “…of living with others according to rules often include using self-control to restrain or redirect desires (e.g., Baumeister & Exline, 1999; Freud, 1930; Hofmann, Friese, & Strack, 2009; Mischel, Cantor, & Feldman, 1996; Vohs & Cia-rocco, 2004), especially insofar as rules shape how, when,…”