The Importance of Lifting Negation

Friday: There's a certain kind of appeal to lifting negation right because i think there is a tendency to think well if we lift the repression then we're going to get access to this incredible satisfaction that the repressed idea embodies. Historically conservatism was about firming up oppression which is why again my psychoanalysis was seen as a dangerous leftist plot, he says. friday: The impulse that is repressed is actually stronger when it's repressed than when it's when the repression is lifted.