Thursday, May 19, 2016

Socialism, Eros, Narcissism

It is easy to conceive Coitus as a basic model of a Socialist society--a productive collaboration.  Furthermore, it can be interpreted as an instance of Eros, and, insofar as involvement in it is voluntary, it can described as 'civilized'.  In other words, a Socialist 'Eros and Civilization' could connote Coitus.  Accordingly, on that basis, the reduction of 'Eros' to a subjective urge, e. g. by both Freud and Marcuse, can be classified as a privatization of a social act, and, hence, as an expression of what each accepts as 'secondary narcissism'.  Likewise classified, therefore, can be Marcuse's "Eros and Civilization" that is developed from it.

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