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Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal

Abstract

My contribution to this year's dialogue is inspired by the Symposiums title, "Civility and its Discontents:' Immediately, I think of Freud's Civilization and its Discontents. As I understand Freud's argument in that 1930 monograph, civilization itself is a great struggle between Eros and Death, between Love and Aggression. The process of civilization is carried out by the repression of basic instincts-instincts that are sexual or aggressive or destructive. So when we hear "civility,, in the place of "civilization:' it generates some interesting questions.

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