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A Critique of Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents from Eliade’s Religious Perspective, with Special Reference to Eliade’s Autobiography and Journals

  • Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences
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  • 2018, (60), pp.43-64
  • DOI : 10.17939/hushss.2018..60.003
  • Publisher : Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Interdisciplinary Research
  • Received : June 24, 2018
  • Accepted : July 23, 2018
  • Published : August 31, 2018

Bae, Byung-Hoon 1

1서강대학교

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ABSTRACT

The goal of this paper is to examine Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents from the background and intrinsic value of Mircea Eliade’s ideas, focusing on Eliade's autobiography and journals. This work shows that Eliade's approach is not derived from a notion of essentialism that is far from reality, but from an examination of the existential problems of actual human life based on real life experiences and factual data. The crucial difference between Eliade and Freud is the contrast of their decisive attitude about life and civilization. Freud insisted that the tragic pain caused by human civilization could be solved by the empathic ties of expansion of Eros. On the other hand, Eliade argued that a human being, a historical being who lives through his daily life, is demanding a new humanism through a mythical and religious meaning. Eliade's view seems to be more appropriate for the future of mankind because we will be able to overcome creatively any new hardships by regaining symbolic meanings.

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