[lbo-talk] Correcting Slavoj Zizek

Tom Walker timework at telus.net
Sun Jun 5 19:54:26 PDT 2005


Zizek wrote,


>Apropos Freud, Theodor Adorno claimed that what we are seeing in the
>contemporary world with its "repressive desublimation" is no longer the
>old logic of repression of the id and its drives but a perverse pact
>between the superego (social authority) and the id (illicit aggressive
>drives) at the expense of the ego.

That was Herbert Marcuse in _Eros and Civilization_, not Adorno.

The Sandwichman



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