Review article

Sexuality as a Form of Human Alienation

Milena Hlady ; Narodno sveučilište grada Zagreba, Dolac 1/1

Abstract

The author’s intention was to show the relation between sexuality and alienation within the social frame. In this relation, the author made the connection: individual-sexuality-society. This relation she follows in Freud’s, Reich’s and Marcuse’s work).
Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, was the first to look at sexuality from the scientific point of view. Marcuse, with his reinterpretation of Freud, tried to unite psychoanalysis with Marxism. Reich tried to resolve the problem of social repression by liberation in sexual sphere.
The author considers, that, if the repression enabled working energy and man, the problem of repression has to be considered in the light of alienated work and alienated man. Without accepting Marx’s conception of alienation, the analysis of that problem would stay one-dimensional.

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Hrčak ID:

156320

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/156320

Publication date:

30.9.1975.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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