Psychic dejection stems from a bourgeois instinct structure produced by childhood repression

Evidence

Lack of pride, lack of joy in oneself and others, lack of self-confidence, dejection, feelings of guilt (in spite of a decision at one point to live a definite kind of life for certain definite reasons)all of these have as their common root a bourgeois instinctual structure created by our upbringing (being prevented from doing what is fun). Only conscious pride, which opposes the rights and the value of our partnership to a hostile world, can help to overcome this instinctual structure, which constantly questions the maxims of gaîté and courage. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 439

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the early-Horkheimer concept of ‘bourgeois instinctual structure’ and its origin in upbringing
• XREF: connects to: Horney’s cultural determinism slid into ignoring social distortion of instinctive structure; Freudian mental categories are historical products of bourgeois subject disintegration — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 74; Dismantling prohibitions eliminates the psychic repression that generated Freudian symptoms — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 109 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Dismantling prohibitions eliminates the psychic repression that generated Freudian symptoms #expands (0.85) — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 109
• Freud reproduced the bourgeois contempt of instinct he set out to dismantle #qualifies (0.72)