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Instead of Repression
Edel, Abraham | July 7, 1956 issue

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The article focuses on the book "Eros and Civilization," by Herbert Marcuse. This book has special pertinence in a world whose tensions set up increasing psychological stress within the individual. Author Marcuse discusses in its fullest theoretical scope, the burden, a repressive civilization places on the fundamental drives, separates carefully what is due to survival needs and what serves instead the interests of domination, shows how far the latter is unnecessary in the modern world with its advanced scientific possibilities and suggests what changes in attitude to work and play, value and association would be the consequence of a genuine relaxation of the repressive outlook.

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EROS & Civilization (Book); MARCUSE, Herbert, 1898-1979; BOOKS; SOCIAL sciences; HUMAN behavior; SOCIAL psychology
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