Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
Publications ยป 1970s

Five Lectures: Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia

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Five Lectures: Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia. Translations by Jeremy J. Shapiro and Shierry M. Weber (Boston, Beacon Press, 1970), 109 p.

  • Four of these lectures were translated from the author's Psychoanalyse und Politik (Frankfurt, 1968).
  • Includes bibliographical references
  • Contents:
    --Freedom and Freud's theory of instincts, 1-27 [1956 lecture in German, publ. 1957, 1968]
    --Progress and Freud's theory of instincts, 28-43
    --The obsolescence of the Freudian concept of man, 44-61 [1963 lecture at Am. Pol. Sci. Assoc.]
    -- The End of Utopia , 62-69, discussion 69-82 [ 1967 Berlin lecture]
    -- The problem of violence and the radical opposition , 83-94, discussion 94-108 [1967 Berlin lecture]
  • reviewed by Larry L. Adams in: Western Political Quarterly 23:4(Dec. 1970), pp. 903- 904
  • Turkish translation of The End of Utopia, " Utopyanin sonu," by Dogan Baris Kilinc, in the philosophical journal, Bibliothec 2(2007), 56-59. (4 page pdf)
  • review: Eliseo Vivas , "By and On Marcuse" Modern Age 15:1 (1971:Winter), 80-89 (pdf) review of Five Lectures and books by MacIntyre and Robert Marks.

Index entries: Shapiro, Jeremy J. Weber, Shierry M. Freedom and Freud's theory of instincts Progress and Freud's theory of instincts The obsolescence of the Freudian concept of man End of Utopia The problem of violence and the radical opposition