Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translator's Introduction -- Introduction -- Part One: The Internal Distance -- Chapter 1 The Articulation and the Breach -- Part Two: The External Distance -- Chapter 2 Civilisation and Its Discontents -- I. The Historical Categories, Foundation of the Psychic Apparatus -- II. Techniques to Elude the Reality of the External World -- III. Analysis of the Real Obstacle -- IV. The Historical Foundation of the Lack of Discernment -- V. The Negation of Aggressiveness -- VI. Out of Hunger Not Being Capable of Love -- VII. The Halting of Aggressiveness Due to Guilt -- VIII. Ideology, the Concealment of Guilt's True Content -- IX. Transformation of the Fundamental Bourgeois Categories -- Chapter 3 Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego -- I. Introduction -- II. Critique of the Bourgeois Conceptions of the Group (continuation) -- III. The Amplification of the Body Beyond Dependency -- IV. The Official Institutions are Groups Congruent with the System -- V. The Discernment Repressed -- VI. The Human Form as Index of the Coherence of the Social System -- VII. Being in Love and Hypnosis: From Individual Dependency to Social Dependency -- VIII. The Return to the Historical Origin -- IX. Dialectic of Collective Forms: From the Primal Horde to the Fraternal Alliance -- X. The Mass, Stage or Battlefield -- Index.

Offering an in-depth interpretation of Sigmund Freud's "collective" or "social" works, León Rozitchner insists that the Left should consider the ways in which capitalism inscribes its power in the subject as the site for the verification of history. Thus, after a brief commentary on Freud's New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis , the present book, which was first published in Spanish in 1972, provides the reader with a chapter-by-chapter analysis of Civilisation and Its Discontents and Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. Freud's views, according to Rozitchner's original reading, offer a striking contribution to a materialist theory and history of subjectivity. This book was first published in Spanish as Freud y los limites del individualismo burgues by Siglo XXI Editores, 1979.

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