Connect Freud to Marcuse’s idea of surplus repression.
What will be an ideal response?
A question arising from Freud’s analysis is whether the conflict between the pleasure principle and the reality principle must inevitably lead to the repression of instinctual pleasure and thus the “misery” of humankind. These additional controls represent. The surplus repression represents the portion of repression “which is the result of specific societal conditions sustained in the specific interest of domination” and that unnecessarily impedes the gratification of instinctual desires (ibid.:88). In other words, although the reality principle is intrinsically opposed to the pleasure principle, the specific form that it takes is determined by the prevailing method of social domination—the existing system of social institutions, norms, and values that guides the necessary control of the instincts.
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