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Freud, the Contemporary Super-Ego, and Western Morality : An Essay on Psychopolitics by Giosuè Ghisalberti (2023, Trade Paperback)

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 twenty-first 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 comprehensive set of ideas as outlined by Freud in the writings of the 1920's and the analysis of a contemporary theological-political unconscious. Ghisalberti argues that the psyche of the liberal West has regressed to an infantile and primitive present, driven by an unconscious hostility towards the Oedipus complex and, more comprehensively, to Western civilization as a whole. The book re-examines Freud's psychoanalytic ideas on the nature of obsessions, interpreted first from the murder of the primal father in Totem and Taboo , and turns to his grounding ideals of intelligence, creativity, and freedom as the affirmation of the coming-to-be-human in modernity. Freud, the Contemporary Super-ego, and Western Morality will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training. It will also be key reading for academics and scholars of psychoanalytic studies, philosophy, political theory and the humanities.

Publication Year
2023
Topic
Movements / Psychoanalysis, General, Censorship, Mental Health
Book Title
Freud, the Contemporary Super-Ego, and Western Morality : an Essay on Psychopolitics
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Genre
Psychology, Political Science
Author
Giosuè Ghisalberti
Format
Trade Paperback

Dewey Edition
23
Lccn
2023-018756
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
320.019
Table of Content
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

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