Revisiting some of the most significant moments in Herbert Marcuse's career allows the recollection of certain elements of his contribution to the contemporary reflection on the relationship between psychoanalysis and Marxism, as welJ as on the revalorization of pleasure in socialist thinking, for the redemption of utopia, the reexamination of the differences between reformation and revolution, and for deepening the criticism on the cultural industry's means of manipulation of human behavior, as well.
Marcuse; psychoanalysis; Marxism; utopia; capitalism