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This paper examines various aspects of action and inaction in Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents and Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis." The paper further describes what is most clear with respect to the role in which the human impulse towards Eros or erotic action is repressed and channeled into inaction as the basis of human civilization. This essay additionally references the works of Freud and Foucault, exploring how action and inaction with regard to Eros and its control or containment is at the core of civilization and has profoundly shaped Western models of the state and social order.

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"The exploration of aspects of action and inaction in Freud's Civilization and its Discontents and Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis is most clear with respect to the role in which the human impulse towards Eros or erotic action is repressed and channelled into inaction as the basis of human civilization. This essay will, with reference primarily to the works of Freud and Foucault, explore how action and inaction with regard to Eros and its control or containment is at the core of civilization and has profoundly shaped Western models of the state and social order."

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