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sue0815

the superego. It originates from the long dependency of the infant on his parents; the parental influence remains the core of the superego. Subsequently, a number of societal and cultural influences are taken in by the superego until it coagulates into the powerful representative of established morality and “what people call the ‘higher‘ things in human life.”

sue0815 This development, by which originally conscious struggles with the demands of reality (the parents and their successors in the formation of the superego) are transformed into unconscious automatic reactions, is of the utmost importance for the course of civilization. 3mo
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sue0815

According to Freud, the history of man is the history of his repression. Culture constrains not only his societal but also his biological existence, not only parts of the human being but his instinctual structure itself. However, such constraint is the very precondition of progress.

sue0815 Later, Freud, in order to illustrate the regressive character of sexuality, recalls Plato‘s “fantastic hypothesis” that “living substance at the time of its coming to life was torn apart into small particles, which have ever since endeavoured to reunite through the sexual instincts.” 3mo
sue0815 Eros is defined as the great unifying force that preserves all life.16 The ultimate relation between Eros and Thanatos remains obscure.
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sue0815 Fenichel pointed out20 that Freud himself made a decisive step in this direction by assuming a “displaceable energy, which is in itself neutral, but is able to join forces either with an erotic or with a destructive impulse” — with the life or the death instinct. 3mo
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sue0815

“Instinct,” in accordance with Freud‘s notion of Trieb, refers to primary “drives” of the human organism which are subject to historical modification; they find mental as well as somatic representation.

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jenniferw88
Aesthetic Theory | Theodor W. Adorno
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#basicwitchswap aesthetic @sprainedbrain

Notes:
The thunderstorm is there to represent the water element.
Professor Trelawney is there to represent Divination practice (my fave HP witches are Hermione, Minerva and Bellatrix).
And the Turkey Pie is there instead of pumpkin and apples - I much prefer savoury pies to these traditional samhain/halloween foods.

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breadnroses
Towards a New Manifesto | Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer
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“What Hegel and Marx called utopianism has been rendered obsolete by the present stage of history. That is because the stage reached by the forces of production really would permit us to eliminate need and because the entire world has been welded together in a single context of delusion and disaster, so that salvation lies only in impulses that lead us out of that totality.” — Theodor Adorno

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BookishMarginalia
The Authoritarian Personality | Theodor W. Adorno
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There are no words.

MsMelissa I turned on the news and said ‘Holy Sh*t‘ 4y
AmyG I am glued to the TV. 4y
JenReadsAlot Terrifying.... 4y
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Susanita Thanks a pant load, turtle man. 4y
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CBee @Susanita turtle man 😂😂😂😂 Tho I do think that‘s an insult to the turtle 🧐😂 4y
CBee @BookishMarginalia this might make you feel better - at least a little - Twitter has locked his (I can‘t even say his name right now) account for 12 hours and they will permanently suspend his account if he doesn‘t stop the baseless tweeting 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 4y
BookishMarginalia @CBee Yes, it does! 4y
CBee @BookishMarginalia good! And here‘s a big hug 🤗 too ♥️ 4y
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breadnroses
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“but why were the jews the scapegoats? because, adorno and horkheimer suggested, the image of the jew was the false projection of things that were unbearable about non-jewish society...‘no matter what the jews as such may be like, their image, as that of the defeated people, has the features to which totalitarian domination must be completely hostile: happiness without power, wages without work, a home without frontiers, religion without myth...‘

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jenniferw88
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If the title isn't long enough, the subtitle makes it even longer! 🤣🤣🤣 #unusualtitles @ljuliel

#NFNov @rsteve388 @Clwojick +1 participation = 26pts

ljuliel Thanks for participating , Jennifer. That certainly looks like a challenging read ! 😁 5y
candority I read part of this book for an essay last semester. It was exhausting 😫 5y
ljuliel It sounds really boring . @candority. I bet it was rough. 5y
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jenniferw88 @ljuliel @candority I read it in its entirety in 2013 for my MA dissertation. Unfortunately I can't remember what I thought of it or whether I used it in the final piece! 🤣🤣🤣 5y
candority Wow, you‘re a trooper! What did you write your dissertation about? 5y
jenniferw88 @candority female villains in Ann Radcliffe's novels - so was writing about the 2 different roles available to women in the 18th century. 5y
candority Very interesting! 5y
Clwojick 1 pt. 5y
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pixelmist
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Jeffries‘s writing soars when he‘s digging into lesser-known materials (Adorno‘s adorbs letters to his mom) or narrating the lives of these monumental figures (the Benjamin stuff is especially moving). But the author‘s grasp of Marxism itself is...not great. Good for an overview of the FS/its thinkers, but without prior knowledge of Marx much of Jeffries‘s analysis would be somewhat misleading. Still, I loved this, and would recommend!