CIVILIZAÇÃO E DESTRUTIVIDADE: UMA LEITURA DOS TEXTOS CULTURAIS DE FREUD

摘要

The study investigates the nature of people’s hostility to civilization, using as a basis Freud’s interpretations presented in some of his texts, generally known as cultural texts. His 1915 Reflections on War and Death, his 1921 Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, his 1927 The future of an illusion and his 1929 Civilization and its discontents were analyzed. The central thesis is that this hostility is associated with the repressive nature of civilization, whose basis is the cultural idealization, on which rests the mismatch between the technical and human development and the social and personal development, which characterize the civilization examined by the author.