Imagination is everything in social life. To borrow from Freud: “The realm of imagination was seen to be a ‘reservation’ made during the painful transition from the pleasure principle to the reality principle in order to provide a substitute for instinctual satisfactions which had to be given up in real life. The artist, like the neurotic, … Continue reading Forepleasure
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Wish
“All I know is that I do not know.” Perhaps the most memorable quote from Socrates, which in turn explains our state of mind and our overall reality once we arrived at the absurdity of the world scene in the previous piece. But with absurdity consuming all else, including our social reality, all we are … Continue reading Wish
Love and Hate
It follows that we do not stop at conflict when we are pursuing a final analysis of everything, given that in the end, everything is psychoanalytical, and given that everything is psychoanalytical, conflict ends up serving as a mere model for psychoanalysis. We have repression and the self-preservation instinct on one hand, and on the … Continue reading Love and Hate
A Masculine Protest
In essence, what is at the heart of the social world and at the heart of our social reality - namely, the unconscious - is unknown. And it is unknown because what drives the unconscious is an outer-body energy which psychoanalysts have called the “libido.” Repression is “brought to bear upon the libidinal instincts.” Repression … Continue reading A Masculine Protest
The Doctrine of Repression
The overall absurdity and dilemmas which we face in the world scene are also conscious and repressive. All of it weighs on the mind heavily. Hence, we revert to the issue of Freudian repression, given that we find that repression is at the heart of both organization and structure upon close examination. Western repression ends up being … Continue reading The Doctrine of Repression
Adam A. Azim 