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From tonight's reading...
Freud, "Civilization and It's Discontents" Section VI
The natural instinct of aggression in man, the hostility of each one against all and of all against each one, opposes the program of civilization. This instinct of aggression is the derivative and main reprenstative of the death instinct we have found alongside Eros, sharing this rule over the earth.
And now it seems to me, the meaning of the evolution of culture is no longer a riddle to us. It must present the struggle between Eros and Death, between the instincts of life and the instincts of destruction as it works itself out in the human species....
I think here you have a good picture of sacrifice / Eucharist bringing mythological harmony to these two competing human realities: the unity of death and rebirth, or life extending outward from death... And as we see through the demystification of this ritual under the light of modernity, some other form of unification must occur as a replacement, lest the whole mess continue in this insane "out of balance" world of sex and violence-- two extremes of the human experience wrestling for our control.
Flick
Freud, "Civilization and It's Discontents" Section VI
The natural instinct of aggression in man, the hostility of each one against all and of all against each one, opposes the program of civilization. This instinct of aggression is the derivative and main reprenstative of the death instinct we have found alongside Eros, sharing this rule over the earth.
And now it seems to me, the meaning of the evolution of culture is no longer a riddle to us. It must present the struggle between Eros and Death, between the instincts of life and the instincts of destruction as it works itself out in the human species....
I think here you have a good picture of sacrifice / Eucharist bringing mythological harmony to these two competing human realities: the unity of death and rebirth, or life extending outward from death... And as we see through the demystification of this ritual under the light of modernity, some other form of unification must occur as a replacement, lest the whole mess continue in this insane "out of balance" world of sex and violence-- two extremes of the human experience wrestling for our control.
Flick