The Repression of Sexuality in High Art

The idea is that in high art, sexual impulses are channeled in the aesthetic. In a 19th century novel, you don't see any of that. It's still on his view, sublimating sexual impulse. Both of them always have a sexual component. This is the Freudian theory. It's just that in one of them, it gets expressed and one of them gets repressed. I think mass production is meant to be in counterpoint to Highard where that repression is paid off in sublimation. So you don't just get repression. You get an expression.