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10 Psychological States 7. Repressive desublimation Political theorist Herbert Marcuse was a big fan of Freud and lived through the social upheavals of the 1960s. He wanted to explain how societies could go through periods of social liberation, like the countercultures and revolutions of the mid-twentieth century, and yet still remain under the (often strict) control of governments and corporations. How could the U.S. have gone through all those protests in the 60s but never actually overthrown the government? The answer, he decided, was a peculiar emotional state known as "repressive desublimation." Remember, Freud said sublimation is when you route your sexual energies into something non-sexual. But Marcuse lived during a time when people were very much routing their sexual energies into sex — it was the sexual liberation era, when free love reigned. People were desublimating. And yet they continued to be repressed by many other social strictures, coming from corporate life, the military, and the government. Marcuse suggested that desublimation can actually help to solidify repression. It acts as an escape valve 10. Group feelings ad reads. “A generator is required to provide for our desires so that we don't attempt to Some psychologists argue that there are power.” liberate ourselves from other social restrictions. some feelings we can only have as members of Seneca is about 161 miles northeast of A good example of repressive desublimation is a group — these are called intergroup and Sacramento – a nearly 3 1/2 hour drive along the intense partying that takes place in college. intragroup feelings. Often you notice them flat, straight highways and over rugged Often, people in college do a lot of drinking, when they are in contradiction with your mountain roads. drugging and hooking up — while at the same personal feelings. For example, many people A plaque embedded in a boulder in the time studying very hard and trying to get ready feel intergroup pride and guilt for things that ghost town says that Seneca sprung up in 1851 for jobs. Instead of questioning why we have to their countries have done, even if they weren't after a gold discovery. The plaque recalls the pay tons of money to engage in rote learning born when their countries did those things. mining town’s heyday, when it boasted a hotel, and get corporate jobs, we just obey the rules Though you did not fight in a war, and are dance hall, grocery store and an opium den for and have crazy drunken sex every weekend. therefore not personally responsible for what the town’s estimated 500 Chinese miners, who Repressive desublimation! happened, you share in an intergroup feeling of worked for 10 cents a day in rice. pride or guilt. Group feelings often cause The land and structures in Seneca are 8. Aporia painful contradictions. A person may have an valued at about $72,000, according to Plumas You know that feeling of crazy intragroup feeling (from one group to another) County Assessor’s records. emptiness you get when you realize that that homosexuality is morally wrong. But that But the sale also includes a seasonal something you believed isn't actually true? And person may personally have homosexual liquor license and rights to minerals, timber and then things feel even more weird when you feelings. Likewise, a person may have an more on the property. [] realize that actually, the thing you believed intragroup feeling that certain races or religions might be true and might not — and you'll never are inferior to those of their group. And yet they Weird News – Small Florida really know? That's aporia. The term comes may personally know very honorable, good from ancient Greek, but is also beloved of post- people from those races and religions whom Town Ignores Privacy Laws structuralist theorists like Jacques Derrida and they consider friends. A group feeling can only and Saves License Plate Gayatri Spivak. The reason modern theorists come about through membership in a group, love the idea of aporia is that it helps to describe and isn't something that you would ever have on Images from Camera for Ten the feeling people have in a world of your own. But that doesn't mean group feelings Years information overload, where you are often are any less powerful than personal ones. bombarded with contradictory messages that seem equally true. Weird News – Ghost Town Yet another privacy concern story, this time from Florida. The Longboat Key police have 9. Compersion with Liquor License on their new license plate camera up and running, We've gotten into some pretty Craigslist but according to the police chief, this one stores philosophical territory, so now it's time to return all images as ‘evidence’ for up to ten years. to some good, old-fashioned internet memes. When questioned about the possibility for The word compersion was popularized by NBC Dallas abuses of this camera’s historical record, the chief said, ‘There are regulations, policies and people in online communites devoted to polyamory and open relationships, in order to The abandoned gold-mining town of Seneca has laws in place that prohibit that kind of abuse. And if abuse is discovered, it’s punished.’ What describe the opposite of feeling jealous when been crumbling in California’s Sierra Nevada could possibly go wrong? your partner dates somebody else. Though a Mountains for decades. monogamous person would feel jealous seeing And it could be yours for $225,000: Whether you’re a skeptic or beleiver, join their partner kiss another person, a non- nearly 10 acres of remote wilderness with three Rob McConnell, Monday - Friday monogamous person could feel compersion, a worn, wooden cabins and a run-down bar called from 10 pm - 2 am Eastern. sense of joy in seeing their partner happy with The Gin Mill – liquor license included. another person. But monogamous people can The property’s owner posted a Craigslist UFOs * Ghosts * Hauntings * Things That feel compersion, too, if we extend the definition ad for the site in September, titled, “$225000 Bump In The Night * and Much More out to mean any situation where you feel the Seneca — ghost-town with liquor license opposite of jealous. If a friend wins an award (Seneca).” That’s The ‘X’ Zone Radio/TV Show on your you hoped to win, you can still feel compersion “ There are no utilities and there was no local radio/TV station or go to (though you might be a little jealous too). business activity at the bar this past season,” the www.xzoneradiotv.com.