@inbook{c17ccd63fd3e4354b6d80d467d1c49a8,
title = "Freud on the uneasiness on the identities",
abstract = "The epistolary exchange between Freud and Einstein, promoted in the mid 30{\textquoteright}s by the International Institute for Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations, resumes and summarises many of Freud{\textquoteright}s previous concerns with an aggressive dynamism inherent to the cultural process and to the formation of identities. Although culture and civilisation undeniably promote and render possible a greater proximity between individuals and between groups through love, empathy and friendship, the process of identifications and the great demands of culture also create the conditions for destructiveness and antagonisms. Collective identities, as they are shaped in the logic of a primitive affirmation of the “I”, oppose self and others, rendering the acceptance and the recognition of foreigners inseparable from aggressiveness and conflict. Any pacifistic and cosmopolitan endeavour has therefore to take into account this irretrievable reality, creating international institutions capable of transforming such spontaneous tendencies into a pursuit of common and universal interests that do not constraint individual liberties, rights and duties. But is that possible?",
keywords = "Identity, Self, Masses, Conflict, Peace, Cosmopolitanism",
author = "Proen{\c c}a, {Nuno Miguel}",
note = "info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/DL 57%2F2016/DL 57%2F2016%2FCP1453%2FCT0008/PT# info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDB%2F04666%2F2020/PT# info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDP%2F04666%2F2020/PT# DL 57/2016/CP1453/CT0008 UIDB/04666/2020 UIDP/04666/2020 ; A Critical Archaeology of Cosmopolitan Thinking : Looking Back at the 1920's and 1930's ; Conference date: 30-01-2020 Through 31-01-2020",
year = "2023",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-428-18577-1",
series = "Beitr{\"a}ge zur Politischen Wissenschaft (BPW)",
publisher = "Duncker & Humblot ",
pages = "177--192",
editor = "Gerard Raulet and Meyer, {Daniel }",
booktitle = "A Critical Archaeology of Cosmopolitan Thinking",
}