Herbert Marcuse - Eros and Civilization (1955)

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The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of childhood begin to tell the truth that reason denies.

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Either one defines personality and individuality in terms of their possibilities within the established form of civilization, in which case their realization is for the vast majority tantamount to successful adjustment. Or one defines them in terms of their transcending content, including their socially denied potentialities beyond (and beneath) their actual existence; in this case, their realization would imply transgression, beyond the established form of civilization, to radically new modes of personality and individuality incompatible with the prevailing ones. Today, this would mean curing the patient to become a rebel or (which is saying the same thing) a martyr.

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The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression.

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Behind the aesthetic form lies the repressed harmony of sensuousness and reason

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