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Write on the following in about 150 words: Herbert Marcuse turned Freudianism on its head in his critical theory.

  • UPSC 2026
  • 10 marks
  • Political Ideologies

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Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979) of the Frankfurt School did to Sigmund Freud what Karl Marx did to G. W. F. Hegel: he kept the categories and reversed the verdict. In Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud (1955), Freud's case for permanent repression becomes an indictment of capitalism and a charter for liberation.

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  • Freud's Starting Point
  • The Inversion
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