Conventional psychic health requires a deeper mutilation than classic neurotic repression

Evidence

With its idea of freedom and deregulation, contemporary achievement society is massively dismantling the barriers and prohibitions that constituted disciplinary society. The dismantling of negativity serves to enhance achievement. Matters reach a general state of dissolution and boundlessness—indeed, a state of general promiscuity—from which no energy of repression issues. Where restrictive sexual morality does not prevent the impulses of drives from being discharged, paranoid delusions do not emerge—such as those of Daniel Paul Schreber, which Freud traced back to repressed homosexuality. The “Schreber Case” typifies nineteenth-century disciplinary society, where the strict prohibition of homosexuality—indeed, of pleasure and desire as a whole—predominated. — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 109 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Dismantling prohibitions eliminates the psychic repression that generated Freudian symptoms — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 109

Broader Connections

• Dismantling prohibitions eliminates the psychic repression that generated Freudian symptoms #contradicts (0.82) — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 109