Marcuse bases his arguments on Freud's fundamental observation that a certain amount of repression of instincts is necessary to adapt human subjects to reality, and that this adaptation creates increasingly complicated civilizations while keeping destructive instincts in check. His language is song, and his work is play" (171)įor a thorough and efficient review of Marcuse's arguments, see 121-26 and 241-43. "The Orphic Eros transforms being: he masters cruelty and death through liberation. "In its refusal to accept as final the limitations imposed upon freedom and happiness by the reality principle, in its refusal to forget what can be, lies the critical function of phantasy" (149) His language is song, and his wor "When philosophy conceives the essence of being as Logos, it is already the Logos of domination-commanding, mastering, directing reason, to which man and nature are to be subjected" (125) "When philosophy conceives the essence of being as Logos, it is already the Logos of domination-commanding, mastering, directing reason, to which man and nature are to be subjected" (125) "In its refusal to accept as final the limitations imposed upon freedom and happiness by the reality principle, in its refusal to forget what can be, lies the critical function of phantasy" (149) "The Orphic Eros transforms being: he masters cruelty and death through liberation.
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