only Freud, of course, actually had an id, revealing how disgusting he was. everybody else does things for the exact reasons that make them most praiseworthy to those around them
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Just lol if you “have” an “id” like what are you neil gaiman lol
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@qorprate Do you have thoughts about how psychoanalytic frameworks shift once previously, allegedly repressed desires become (at least nominally) culturally normative and no longer requiring repression? Once Id is a representation of the Superego, etc?2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes -
The Marxist psychoanalytic take is that advanced capitalism forces psychoanalysis to become Marxist psychoanalysis - or less cutely, to loose the narrow, outmoded confines of domesticity and sex for more abstracted relations and logics.
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Lacan pointed to this with his idea of the superego, that which commands you to "enjoy!" My guess is that even if a repressed desire becomes socially acceptable, there's still always a gap between the socially normative form and the "true" desire.
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If the desire for X is for reasons of taboo/unacceptability, then X becoming normalized may actually remove the original reason why you wanted X. Desire for X may become displaced onto some other desire Y.
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My gut feeling is that many desires come from a desire to differentiate oneself (as a response to Lacanian symbolic castration, which requires specialization, especially in men). So, cultural normalization could mean failure rather than success, unless you personally did it.
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if your root desire is to punch society right in the fucking face it's a bit uphill getting that one normalized not that people aren't doing an actually remarkable job of pulling it off
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