[What does "discomfort in current culture" mean today and what can it be called within the scope of critical political psychology?].
Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents" (1930) serves the author as a point of departure for socio-psychological hypotheses that go beyond the biologistic bias of the late Freudian concept of drive and its approach to the subject in terms of the antagonism of eros and thantos and essay a concrete historical and social diagnosis of present-day "discontent" with our civilization. The view taken by Busch is indebted to the work of Klaus Horn and Alfred Lorenzer, regarding "discontent" as the result of a failed socialisation process of an internal nature, the expression of "damaged subjectivity". Like Freud before him, Busch speculates on the chances for the emergence of a "constitutional intolerance" not only towards war in the traditional sense but also towards the species of war that represents the major threat to mankind today: the technological and industrial warfare waged against the natural foundations of the very existence of homo sapiens on this planet.
Sigmund-Freud-Institut, Frankfurt a.M.
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Was heisst "Unbehagen in der Kultur" heute bzw. was kann es im Rahmen einer kritischen Politischen Psychologie heissen?