Eros and civilization: a philosophical inquiry into Freud

The hidden trend in psychoanalysis

The origin of the repressed individual (ontogenesis)

The origin of repressive civilization (phylogenesis)

The dialectic of civilization

Philosophical interlude

The historical limits of the established reality principle

Phantasy and utopia

The images of Orpheus and Narcissus

The aesthetic dimension

The transformation of sexuality into Eros

Eros and Thanatos

Epilogue: critique of neo-Freudian revisionism.