{"id":5801,"date":"2010-10-09T18:05:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T22:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=5801"},"modified":"2010-10-09T18:06:01","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T22:06:01","slug":"marcuse-repressive-desublimation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2010\/10\/09\/marcuse-repressive-desublimation\/","title":{"rendered":"marcuse repressive desublimation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www4.hmc.edu:8001\/humanities\/beckman\/PhilNotes\/marcuse.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Repressive Desublimation:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A means of insidious domination was what Marcuse called &#8220;repressive desublimation,&#8221; again an amalgamation of Freud and Marx. Sublimation, recall, is where instinctual energy gets deflected from its natural expression and appears, instead, in some other form of expression or satisfaction. &#8220;Desublimation,&#8221; then, is a system that permits some degree of natural expression or satisfaction of instinctual energy. Desublimation is obviously so powerful that even a small dose can succeed in capturing us. We will return repetitively to satisfy ourselves even in small ways. As an example, something like Playboy magazine could be allowed to feed men a measure of unusual \u2014 that is, formerly tabooed \u2014 sexual satisfaction, but this would happen only by becoming a regular buying customer. When one turned to look at American society of the 60s, it was clear that sexuality was being desublimated in a variety of ways so long as people were ready to consume the right things. Thus, people were actually being repressed anew to the specific advantages of capitalist producers. Looking at American society, today, little has changed, I would say. We have become progressively more narrow (repressed) in our satisfaction of even recreation! Being convinced that we can buy it in the form of ever-more-expensive mountain clothing or recreational vehicles. Meanwhile, most people who buy mountain clothing and four-wheel-drive vehicles never go to the mountains. We have become implicitly convinced (and victimized), believing that recreation is achieved in the purchase and ownership itself. This after all is what capitalism requires &#8212; a never ending will to consume products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Repressive Desublimation: A means of insidious domination was what Marcuse called &#8220;repressive desublimation,&#8221; again an amalgamation of Freud and Marx. Sublimation, recall, is where instinctual energy gets deflected from its natural expression and appears, instead, in some other form of expression or satisfaction. &#8220;Desublimation,&#8221; then, is a system that permits some degree of natural expression &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2010\/10\/09\/marcuse-repressive-desublimation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;marcuse repressive desublimation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desire","category-dubash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5803,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5801\/revisions\/5803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}