E-raamat: The Freudian left

"I think that the judgment on Freud, as well as on his creators so far, is on the conservative side; Freud has often been considered, along with Fehr, Durkheim, Pareto, and Spinger, as one of the great anti-utopians of the past For the twentieth century, he was even considered the person who dealt the final blow to revolutionary aspirations. However, there remains a suspicion that Freud was seeking something dangerous, and that psychoanalysis - despite its clear historical pessimism - refuses to harmonize itself peacefully with the system. What is certain is that many European and American conservatives found Freud disturbing. Great, in fact they found him no less dangerous than Marx himself.This study itself is limited to a group of European intellectuals who discovered the radical power of psychoanalytic theory, but they were not ready to accept what the majority saw Because Freud''s great project included political reactionism and a rejection of instincts, they found - instead - the principles of a radical political and sexual philosophy, which seeks To undermine the existing culture. The results of their efforts were to provide a corrective to the prevailing interpretation of Freud as a conservative. In the writings of Wilhelm Reich, Gesa Rƶheim, and Herbert Marcuse, Freud emerges as the architect of a more sensual and more humane organization of human collective life. He also appears to be the heir of the critical current in European social thought, and even more so Evil, in the style of Marx."