The Individual
In Our Time
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The Importance of Individuality in the Renaissance
The individual one has always got to be defined or understood in terms of his or her social being and all the conflicts and contradictions which that entails. And I think the second consequence of Marx, of course, drawing on Hegel and many other people actually before him, is that the individual is inherently unstable. It's a fantasy to think that there is a private sphere, an authentic subjectivity into which we can withdraw in order to escape the conflicts of the world. You mentioned Freud earlier, Richard von Heimman. But still what he saw was anti the individual that the Renaissance saw.
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