This work proposes "powerful deflections," "substitutive satisfactions," and "intoxicating substances" as three methods for dealing with suffering, and argues that technology has enabled the development of "auxiliary organs," turning man into a kind of "prosthetic god." This work's first section arg
This work proposes "powerful deflections," "substitutive satisfactions," and "intoxicating substances" as three methods for dealing with suffering, and argues that technology has enabled the development of "auxiliary organs," turning man into a kind of "prosthetic god." This work's first section argues that earlier mental stages are preserved alongside more advanced ones, contrasting that phenomenon with the development of the city of Rome, while its last two sections deal largely with the development of the "sense of guilt." This work describes the struggle between the (*) death drive and Eros and posits the supremacy of the pleasure principle, building on its author‘s earlier The Future of an Illusion to essentially argue that not being able to start having optionally-consensual sex with everyone you see generates social problems. FTP, name this essay that argues that rules meant to preserve the integrity of the titular institution repress the id and thus generate the misery of the titular group, a work of Sigmund Freud.
This work proposes "powerful deflections," "substitutive satisfactions," and "intoxicating substances" as three methods for dealing with suffering, and argues that technology has enabled the development of "auxiliary organs," turning man into a kind of "prosthetic god.
{Civilization and its Discontents} [or Das {Unbehagenin der Kultur}]