Marcuse and psychoanalysis: a review of the concepts surplus repression and reality principle

• Grant number: 09/12008-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2011
• End date: April 30, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - Ethics
• Principal Investigator: Marcos Severino Nobre
• Grantee: Maria Érbia Cássia Carnaúba
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The objective of this project is to study the appropriation of Freudian theory by Herbert Marcuse, taking as its starting point an analysis of the concepts of surplus repression and the performance principle in Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Interpretation of the Thought of Freud. Marcuse would have derived these concepts from the Freudian Repression and the Reality Principle respectively, which do not correspond to the current stage of development of capitalist society anymore. With his conceptual reformulation, he rescues the Freudian theory to argue that a society which is less repressive is possible. This perspective presents a problem since Freud's times, but it suggests some ways of overcoming the repressive society, tends to a diagnosis of increased repression, to the point that the possibility of destruction of civilization. We intend to discuss this critical conceptual metamorphosis of Marcuse and its consequences. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

CARNAÚBA, Maria Érbia Cássia. Marcuse and psychoanalysis: the critical theory under the analysis of repression theory. 2012. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas Campinas, SP.