At critical saturation, repression collapses the very concept of energy it produces

Evidence

But when everything is repressed, nothing is anymore. We are not far from this absolute point of repression where the stockpiles are themselves undone, where the stockpiles of phantasms collapse. The whole imaginary of the stockpile, of energy, and of what remains of it, comes to us from repression. When repression reaches a point of critical saturation where its presence is put in question, then energy will no longer be available to be liberated, spent, economized, produced: it is the concept of energy itself that will be volatilized of its own accord. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 486

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Repression as self-annihilating at the saturation point — the whole economy of psychic and physical energy dissolves in a move that parallels (and inverts) the collapse of the real/image distinction.
• XREF: connects to: Every liberated energy inevitably produces a new remainder of its own — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 487; The concept of repression is a juridico-disciplinary notion, tainted from the outset — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 58; Unimaginable trauma is unrememberable precisely because it is repression itself — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 291

Broader Connections

• The concept of repression is a juridico-disciplinary notion, tainted from the outset #expands (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 58