Russian Freudo-Marxism as an Aesthetic Utopia

Abstract

The article contains an analysis of the beliefs and arguments that characterize the utopian project of Freudo-Marxism in the context of the aesthetic program of Russian modernism and the avant-garde, where psychology intersects with sociology and poetics is inseparable from politics. At the heart of the Freudian-Marxist synthesis lies the avant-garde model of life-creation, which presupposes a radical psychophysical melting down of the modern personality and the creation of a perfect human artist capable of overcoming the power of the “unconscious” and resolving the contradiction between nature and culture, the “principle of reality” and the “principle of pleasure” in the space of aesthetic game. Freudo-Marxism is conceptualized as one of the variants of the aesthetic utopia, which asserted the dominance of poiesis over praxis.