Sigmund Freud, Part1

Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud, George Herbert Mead, Erving Goffman and Simone de Beauvoir, all have different theories on the genesis and development of self and the relationship between self and society. Through an analysis of the arguments of these thinkers, I will argue that self is socially constituted. I will also evaluate how the theories of [...]

Fanon – Beauvoir, Fanon and Marcuse, Part 2

Fanon - Beauvoir, Fanon and Marcuse Unlike Beauvoir and Fanon, Marcuse does not discuss the pathology of a certain group in society, his conception of pathology is one that is existent in every individual of the advanced industrial society. Marcuse’s pathological subject is not one that has an inferiority complex, rather, it is an individual [...]

Fanon – Beauvoir, Fanon and Marcuse, Part1

Fanon - Beauvoir, Fanon and Marcuse Beauvoir, Fanon and Marcuse discuss forms of pathological selves created by different sociohistorical conditions. I will argue they all claim that the pathological self is socially constituted, although they have different approaches to the origin and development of the pathology. Beauvoir and Fanon’s [...]