Freud, the Contemporary Super-ego, and Western Morality: An Essay on Psychopolitics

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Giosuè Ghisalberti

Freud, the Contemporary Super-ego, and Western Morality

An Essay on Psychopolitics

Giosuè Ghisalberti

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English

Routledge
09 October 2023

Social & political philosophy; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies; Psychotherapy

"Freud, the Contemporary Super-ego, and Western Morality traces the origins of the relationship between the morality of the super-ego and the destructive impulse of the death drive in the liberal democracies of the 21st century.

Giosuè Ghisalberti begins by refuting the analysis by contemporary social theorists of the phenomenon described as ""the return of the religious,"" presenting instead a comprehensive set of ideas as outlined by Freud in the writings of the 1920s and the analysis of a contemporary theological-political unconscious. Ghisalberti argues that the psyche of the liberal West has regressed to an infantile and primitive present, driven by an unconscious hostility towards the Oedipus complex and, more comprehensively, to Western civilization as a whole. The book re-examines Freud’s psychoanalytic ideas on the nature of obsessions, interpreted first from the murder of the primal father in Totem and Taboo, and turns to his grounding ideals of intelligence, creativity, and freedom as the affirmation of the coming-to-be-human in modernity.

Freud, the Contemporary Super-ego, and Western Morality will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training. It will also be key reading for academics and scholars of psychoanalytic studies, philosophy, political theory and the humanities."

By: Giosuè Ghisalberti
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 860g
ISBN: 9781032532127
ISBN 10: 1032532122
Pages: 252
Publication Date: 09 October 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1. The Regressive Psychology of Groups 2. The Powers of the Super-ego and the Death Drive 3. The Present of Our Illusions 4. The Moral Coercions of Liberalism

Giosuè Ghisalberti is a professor of philosophy at Humber College, Toronto, Canada.