 | Paul Ricoeur - Psychology - 1970 - 594 pages
...instinct which we have found alongside of Eros and which shares world-dominion with it. And now, I think, the meaning of the evolution of civilization is no...of destruction, as it works itself out in the human species. This struggle is what all life essentially consists of, and the evolution of civilization... | |
 | Susan Stanford Friedman - Social Science - 1981 - 360 pages
...instinct which we have found alongside of Eros and which shares world-dominion with it. And now, I think, the meaning of the evolution of civilization is no...of destruction, as it works itself out in the human species.21 His later article "Analysis Terminable and Interminable" (1937) compared his theory of the... | |
 | Richard Wollheim - Biography & Autobiography - 1981 - 344 pages
...its outward manifestation of aggression. "The meaning of the evolution of civilization," Freud wrote, is no longer obscure to us. It must present the struggle...of destruction, as it works itself out in the human species. This is what all life essentially consists of, and the evolution of civilization may therefore... | |
 | Richard Lowry - Psychology - 1971 - 258 pages
...elaboration of the idea, undertaking to show that "the meaning of the evolution of civilization . . . must present the struggle between Eros and Death, between the instinct of life and the instinct of destruction."23 In light of Freud's underlying allegiance to the philosophy of physicalism, his attraction... | |
 | Daphne Patai - Brazilian fiction - 1983 - 268 pages
...constituting his greatest impediment to civilization. Freud saw the evolution of civilization as a struggle between "Eros and Death, between the instinct...of destruction, as it works itself out in the human species. This struggle is what all life essentially consists of, and the evolution of civilization... | |
 | Walter L. Wallace - Social Science - 578 pages
...instinct which we have found alongside of Eros and which shares world-dominion with it. And now, I think, the meaning of the evolution of civilization is no...obscure to us. It must present the struggle between Life and Death, between the instinct of life and the instinct of destruction, as it works itself out... | |
 | Joel Kovel - History - 1984 - 368 pages
...WRETCHED INFIDEL 231 APPENDIX CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY 249 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 291 INDEX 297 And now, I think, the meaning of the evolution of civilization is no...of destruction, as it works itself out in the human species. This struggle is what all life essentially consists of, and the evolution of civilization... | |
 | Paul Rosenfels - Psychoanalysis - 1980 - 86 pages
...than libido, he was able to recognize that civilization is an evolving process: "And now, I think, the meaning of the evolution of civilization is no...of destruction, as it works itself out in the human species. This struggle is what all life essentially consists of, and the evolution of civilization... | |
 | Donald J. Wilcox - History - 1987 - 302 pages
...extended the struggle between Eros and Thanatos to include all of human history. "And now, I think, the meaning of the evolution of civilization is no...of destruction, as it works itself out in the human species. This struggle is what all life essentially consists of, and the evolution of civilization... | |
 | Sigmund Freud - History - 1989 - 162 pages
...instinct which we have found alongside of Eros and which shares world-dominion with it. And now, I think, the meaning of the evolution of civilization is no...of destruction, as it works itself out in the human species. This struggle is what all life essentially consists of, and the evolution of civilization... | |
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And now, I think, the meaning of the evolution of civilization is no longer obscure to us. It must present the struggle between Eros and Death, between the instinct of life and the instinct of destruction, as it works itself out in the human species. 
