Repressed symbols retain a hidden grammatical link to public language.

Evidence

Split-off symbols and defended-against motives unfold their force over the heads of subjects, compelling substitute-gratifications and symbolizations … The split-off symbol has not simply lost all connection with public language. But this grammatical connection has as it were gone underground. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 672

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The image of unconscious material as a grammatical connection that has gone underground, still exerting force over subjects’ heads, is a genuinely load-bearing reformulation of repression.
• XREF: Connects to Habermas’s later account of systematically distorted communication and everyday language’s inherent utopian rationality. — connects to: Repressed taboo words re-emerge elsewhere as profanity shifts to virtue words — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 659; Symbols are elaborated socially like language, not inherited from a mysterious unconscious — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 128; A coded totality still evades the drama of languages — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 452 (+5 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Repressed taboo words re-emerge elsewhere as profanity shifts to virtue words — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 659; Symbols are elaborated socially like language, not inherited from a mysterious unconscious — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 128; A coded totality still evades the drama of languages — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 452 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• A coded totality still evades the drama of languages #complicates (0.72) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 452