Marcuse argued memory of past happiness guarantees the demand for total happiness

Evidence

The continuum of a constantly subterranean history of pleasure, and the memory of earlier happiness in each individual’s childhood as well as in the childhood of the human species, guaranteed, Marcuse reasoned, not only that the demand for happiness was indestructible but that it was a demand for total happiness. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2143

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization and his broader Freudian revisionism, and to the Freudian return-of-the-repressed theme running through Frankfurt School thought. — connects to: Marcuse argued individual happiness requires the universal attainment of positive freedom — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 238; Recalling past change shatters the complacency that inevitability reinforces — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 192

Broader Connections

• Marcuse argued individual happiness requires the universal attainment of positive freedom #expands (0.88) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 238
• Recalling past change shatters the complacency that inevitability reinforces #qualifies (0.72) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 192