In the three extended essays of Civilization and Its Discontented , John Laffey explores various notions of "civilization" and the uses to which they are put. From the appearance of the word in the late 18th century, to the eve of the publication in 1930 of Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents , the first essay focuses on its varying definitions over time. The second essay is concerned with those relegated to civilization's margins or cast beyond its pale once it had emerged as a hegemonic standard of judgement: the ...
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In the three extended essays of Civilization and Its Discontented , John Laffey explores various notions of "civilization" and the uses to which they are put. From the appearance of the word in the late 18th century, to the eve of the publication in 1930 of Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents , the first essay focuses on its varying definitions over time. The second essay is concerned with those relegated to civilization's margins or cast beyond its pale once it had emerged as a hegemonic standard of judgement: the "savages" abraod or on the frontiers, and the "savages" at home - that is, women, the working class, criminals, and the insane. Laffey pays special attention to the way in which such groups were equated with each other, with the ultimate equation to be found in depictions of the crowd as savage, criminal, mad, and woman-like in its hysteria and openness to seduction. The concluding essay provides a close reading of Freud's ambivalent relation to the idea of civilization and argues that he too very much participated in the discourse of marginalization and equation.
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