Re: Psychoanalysis Re: "happiness is a transitory state"

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Ballard wrote:
> I see humans (and most humans are workers at this
> stage in history) as having an instinct for freedom.
> According to my reading of Freud, this instinct is
> repressed in order to maintain civilization i.e.
> whatever class society exists at the moment.

This was stated with much more force in Rousseau. Plus, in Rousseau you
didn't get all sorts of nonsense about interpreting dreams, etc.

> potentialities. A puritan-protestant inheritance of
> self-denial, the necessity of subordinating the
> individual to the demands of production and profit,
> have made for conditions from which Fascism could
> spring.

I wasn't aware that Spain, Portugal and Italy were particularly
puritan-protestant.


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