Freud, the Contemporary Super-ego, and Western Morality

Freud, the Contemporary Super-ego, and Western Morality traces the origins of the relationship between the morality of the super-ego and the destructive impulse of the death drive in the liberal democracies of the 21st century.Giosue Ghisalberti begins by refuting the analysis by contemporary social theorists of the phenomenon described as "e;the return of the religious,"e; presenting instead a co...