59 | Herbert Marcuse B-Sides Mixtape
What's Left of Philosophy
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Sublimation
I think what he's doing is like tracking the emergence of like sublimation, so taking like raw libidinal energy and redirecting it into socially accepted and socially valorized practices. He follows Freud here that it becomes productive of all these kinds of neuroses because of the way that the sublimation occurs is like- neurosis stuff. For the vast majority of people, all thislike sublimation of our libidinal desires gets all just invested in the private sphere of like a monogamous like patriarchal relationship. So there can't be the kinds of desire that is typically understood as amorous at play in labor. The reality principle is like pro forma, the performance
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