This is an automatically translated description

From the publisher:

The name of the author of The Structure of Instincts and Society (in the English edition - Eros and Civilisation) by Herbert Marcuse has become known far beyond the circle of people who are somehow involved in philosophical interests. The proposed book is subtitled: "A Philosophical Study of Freud's Teachings". Thus, it is the author of the theory of the unconscious that Marcuse takes as an ally in his search for a methodological support for a critical examination of the current state of civilisation, for the "diagnosis of a general disorder". Perhaps because at the level of consciousness, the current state of society, the current political and, moreover, spiritual situation does not provide any grounds for substantiating the ideas of a revolutionary transformation of society? Man as such has completely lost the ability to resist the pressure of society, and even more so, the ability to feel this pressure on a conscious level. Therefore, the sources of dissatisfaction with reality have to be sought at the subconscious level. Unlike Freud, Marcuse believes that the conflict between instincts and civilisation is not absolute: repressiveness is not the essence of civilisation as such, but is only inherent in the "specifically historical organisation of human existence". Marcuse tries to add a historical and social dimension to the extra-historical construction. The author complements Freudian concepts. By identifying the repression of instincts with social oppression, which is at least a historically variable phenomenon, he also asserts the historicity of the repressive nature of the principle of reality. For a wide range of readers interested in contemporary issues of philosophy, sociology, and history.