Society and its discontents: possibilities of dialogue between Skinner and Freud
Keywords:
Culture, cultural practices, psychic suffering.Abstract
The present essay aims to present possibilities of dialogue between Skinner and Freud regarding culture and its influence on the individual. Although both authors didn’t deal with the subject of culture in a contemporary way and under the same theoretical and epistemological approach, they describe through different processes the role of cultural practices in the suffering of the individual.Downloads
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