Repressive desublimation

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Repressive desublimation refers in a narrower sense to sexual liberalization that supports the existing structures of rule.

The psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich claimed a fundamental connection between authoritarian drive suppression and fascist ideology and saw the sexual liberation of the individual as a prerequisite for social liberation in the socialist revolution. Reimut Reiche criticized this Freudo-Marxist concept in his work “ Sexuality and Class Struggle . To ward off repressive desublimation ”, in which he shows that sexuality as a commodity can be easily integrated into capitalism .

Herbert Marcuse also relates the term to the cultural field and uses it partly as a synonym for the term repressive tolerance .

literature

  • Wolfgang Fritz Haug : Sexual Conspiracy of Late Capitalism? On the criticism of Reich's "sexuality and class struggle" . In: Wolfgang Fritz Haug: Goods aesthetics, sexuality and domination . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main, 1972 ( online ; PDF; 240 kB).
  • Klaus Horn (Ed.): Group dynamics and the 'subjective factor'. Repressive desublimation or politicizing practice . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main, 1973 (edition suhrkamp 538).
  • Friedrich Koch : Sexuality and Education. Between taboo, repressive desublimation and emancipation. In: Yearbook for Pedagogy 2008: 1968 and the new restoration. Frankfurt / M. 2009, page 117 ff.
  • Herbert Marcuse : Repressive Tolerance . In: Robert Paul Wolff , Barrington Moore , Herbert Marcuse: Critique of pure tolerance . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main, 1970, ISBN 3-518-10181-1 .
  • Herbert Marcuse: Drive Structure and Society. A philosophical contribution to Sigmund Freud . From the American by Marianne von Eckardt-Jaffé . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main, 1965 (Suhrkamp Library, vol. 158).
  • Reimut Reiche : Sexuality and Class Struggle. On the criticism of repressive desublimation . New Critique Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main 1968 (Problems of Socialist Politics 9).
  • Reimut Reiche: The instinctual fate of society. About the structural change in the psyche . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2004, ISBN 3-593-37496-X (Frankfurt contributions to sociology and social philosophy 5).