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Norbert Elias and Sigmund Freud: The Psychoanalytic Foundations of the Civilizing Process

Author(s) : Andre Oliveira Costa

Table of Contents

1. The Court and the Civilization
1.1. The desire for distinction and the fetish of prestige
1.2. The paradoxes of the court and social anxiety

2. The Dynamics of the Civilizing Process
2.1. The expansion of civilization
2.2. The etiquette and the repression of drives
2.3. A new grammar of the court society
2.4. Superego controls and a new psychic economy of the court

3. Logic of Exclusion: The Established and the Outsiders
3.1. Integrate and exclude
3.2. “Us” and “them”: questions about identity
3.3. Intolerances and narcissisms of small differences

4. Continuities and Discontinuities of the Civilizing Process
4.1. Social habitus: forgetting and segregation
4.2. The duty of memory, a collective responsibility

5. The Decivilizing Process and the Destinies of Civilization
5.1. Considerations on times of war and trauma
5.2. The times of trauma
5.3. The two sides of the coin: civilization and decivilization

6. Beyond the Civilizing Process
6.1. A society that demands satisfaction
6.2. The decivilizing spurt
6.3. The metapsychology of the decivilizing process

7. Freud’s Moses: A Historical Novel
7.1. The civilizing process of Jewish monotheism
7.2. Transmission of civilization
7.3. Historical truth

8. Norbert Elias, Beyond Sigmund Freud
8.1. Freudian antagonisms
8.2. The myth of origins and the civilizing process