Freud through Brown and Marcuse

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Freud is, perhaps, most familiar for his theories devolving around the Oedipus Complex, and the ego, superego, and id. His theories went far beyond these four elements, however. The paper shows that his theory of culture, while less familiar to most people than his theory of personality formation, was very influential in its time. This paper examines the perspectives of Herbert Marcuse and Norman Brown on repression, particularly as it relates to personal autonomy, genital sexuality and sublimation based Freud's theories on culture.

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"Freud is, perhaps, most familiar for his theories devolving around the Oedipus Complex, and the ego, superego, and id. His theories went far beyond these four elements, however. His theory of culture, while less familiar to most people than his theory of personality formation, was very influential in its time. This paper will examine the perspectives of Herbert Marcuse and Norman Brown on repression, particularly as it relates to personal autonomy, genital sexuality, and sublimation based Freud's theories on culture. Norman O. Brown In the Introduction to the 1985 edition of Norman O. Brown's book, Life against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History, Christopher Lasch comments that in "`Freud's early scheme,' Brown argues, `represents a psychological version of social contract theory.'"

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