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Drawing upon the writings of Freud, Marx and Engels, Horkheimer and Adorno, Marcuse, Chasseguet-Smirgel, Ricoeur, Kohut, and others, Whitebook examines the concept of a utopian civilization from philosophical and psychoanalytic perspectives. In doing so, he explores how our oedipally structured civilization is founded on a compromise between the reality principle and the pleasure principle, in which the pleasures of the narcissistic gratification of the dyadic relationship are