Repressed disgust toward bodily decay carries unconscious force comparable to infantile sexuality.

Evidence

The unconscious power of that realm may be as great as that of infantile sexuality … An unconscious knowledge whispers to the child what is repressed by civilized education; this is what matters, says the whispering voice. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 642

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the book’s account of the Frankfurt School’s Freud-Marx synthesis (Fromm, Marcuse) on suppressed material impulses. — connects to: Unassimilated particularity that resists conceptual order arouses visceral disgust — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 137; Repressing childhood sexuality produces neuroses more harmful than sexual play itself — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1977; Phobic objects are overdetermined by infantile affect and resist rational correction — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 589 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Unassimilated particularity that resists conceptual order arouses visceral disgust — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 137; Repressing childhood sexuality produces neuroses more harmful than sexual play itself — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1977; Phobic objects are overdetermined by infantile affect and resist rational correction — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 589 (+4 more)