For Work / Against Work
Debates on the centrality of work

Marcuse, H Eros and Civilisation 1955 p.214 Book Marcuse Citations
Citation with Excerpt Marcuse, H 1955 Book Marcuse Citations

Eros and Civilisation

by Marcuse, H (1955)

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The impulses that determine play are the pregenital ones: play expresses objectless autoeroticism and gratifies those component instincts which are already directed toward the objective world. Work, on the other hand, serves ends outside itself - namely, the ends of self-preservation.” (p.214)

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