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The Possibility of Irrepressive Culture in the Work of Herbert Marcuse

Dragutin Novaković ; Medicinski fakultet, Zagreb

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Can the possibility of irrepressive culture by materialized in contemporary society? With regard to the fact that culture is in its essence repressive and that it come into existence through the repression of instincts, the question represents a contradiction in adjecto. However, Herbert Marcuse maintains that it is possible. The notion of a irrepressive society is continually present in the collective consciousness. Irrepressive culture subsisted at the beginning of the history of mankind, i.e. in the myth of life in Eden. Or to rephrase it in the words of S. Freud: the period of irrepressve culture was a period in which man lived in the world of nature and in which he satisfied his instincts, without restraint; in which the feeling of guilt and fear of death were unknown. But, for reasons unidentified, man made an unlucky leap into the world of culture. Along with the world of culture came the damnation of work. H. Marcuse wonders whether a reverse road leading from the state of culture to the state of nature is possible? How can one reconcile the world of nature with the world of culture without transforming human instincts? Marcule believes that success could be achieved if a state of society with no more excess repression is realized. H. Marcuse's critic maintain that Marcuse operates in theological categories in the attempt to abolish the feeling of guilt and the repression of instincts. Regardless of critique, H. Marcuse raises bold questions regarding the destiny of contemporary culture, its instrumentalization in the course of history, the attempts made by art to reconcile human nature and culture.

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Hrčak ID:

155457

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/155457

Datum izdavanja:

31.12.1989.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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