Friday, May 6, 2016

Psyche and Phenomenalism

Freud's representation of reproductive processes as Libido or Eros is that of Organism as Psyche, and is a reduction of Biology to Psychology.  It is, thus, a species of Phenomenalism, like, notably, Hume's concept of the Self as a bundle of perceptions.  Now, as has been previously discussed, the World, according to Phenomenalism is 'in me', which, hence, entails an Atomist concept of society that is conducive to Capitalism.  Thus, not only Freud's concept of the individual human, but Marcuse's variation of it, as well, entails some latent, and perhaps unwonted, ideology.

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