Introduction:
Part 25
Sigmund Freud wrote: "'it is not really a decisive matter whether one has killed one's father or abstained from the deed,' if the function of the conflict and its consequences are the same [that is, the father's/Father's "top-down" authority system no longer has relevance to the child]." (Sigmund Freud as quoted in Herbart Marcuse, Eros and Civilization: A philosophical inquiry into Freud)
"Freud noted that patricide [the children killing and "devouring" their father, negating his authority over them] and incest [the children carrying out their carnal impulses and urges of the 'moment,' i.e., having sensual (sexual) relationship with their mother and one another] are part of man's deepest nature." (Irvin Yalom, The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy) Freud, believing that all children were sexually active, saw sex as being the greatest pleasure of all. Therefore, according to Freud, the only way to 'liberate' man, i.e., to 'liberate' the sexual nature of the child in man, was to 'create' a "new" world order based upon the nature of the child, "helping" the child 'liberate' his "Self" from the father's/Father's authority system, making his "Self," i.e., his carnal desires of the 'moment' ("of 'Self'") the 'drive' of life and the augmentation of pleasure ("for 'Self'") the 'purpose' of life. Explaining Freud's "historiography," Herbart Marcuse wrote : "the hatred against patriarchal suppression—a ‘barrier to incest,' ... the desire (for the sons) to return to the mother—culminates in the rebellion of the exiled sons, the collective killing and devouring of the father, and the establishment of the brother clan [what Freud called "the neuroses of civilization"]," (Herbart Marcuse, Eros and Civilization: a psychological inquiry into Freud) "The individual is emancipated in the social group." "Freud commented that only through the solidarity of all the participants could the sense of guilt be assuaged." (Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History)
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