1. Repressive desublimation

2. A hybrid of Marxist and Freudian Theories
What does that mean?

3. What about all that energy?
A hybrid is a joining together of two ideas to create another
What does Freud mean by sublimation?
What about all that energy?

4. Marcuse has a different view – desublimation occurs when our energies are NOT regulated by the kinds of psychological and social constraints that could cultivate and enhance our positive freedom
Which means What?

5. Our energies are expressed untamed
What does Marcuse mean?
Our energies are expressed untamed
This is our sublime view
Desublimation is repressive because it robs of us our ability to fully express our better selves
We are alienated from others
It’s not in our interests so why does it happen?

6. Gaining control over us in the interests of consumption
From Marx - Marcuse sees political economic structures motivating suppression
Gaining control over us in the interests of consumption
Creating false needs
What are false needs?
Pornography
‘Bread’
And ‘circuses’

7. In an affluent society the authorities are hardly forced to justify their dominion
They deliver the goods; they satisfy the sexual and aggressive energy of their subjects
The people are free and free people do not need to be liberated

8. Now try a 15 mark question:
Explain and illustrate what is meant by repressive desublimation.