desublimation

This is the mechanism of ‘repressive desublimation’, sketched by Marcuse, in which our desires are ‘liberated’ as the ‘dreams that money can buy’.

Ballardian » Better Living through Psychopathology 2010

Although Marcuse wrote of desublimation rather than derepression, the latter captures the sense in which many American bohemians understood Freudian concepts. 6

Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83 2007

Mr. P, so frisky and troublesome in the past, is in the mid-twentieth century in middle-class American society being socialized, brought under control, jerked off into hyper-repressive desublimation and if necessary snapped off at the root altogether and brandished aloft as the captive object, six inches of stone under control.

Mr. P, Mrs. V, and Mr. T Cockburn, Alexander 1980

Or maybe we devalue valuable things because, as Herbert Marcuse observed, of society's tilt toward repressive desublimation.

NPR Topics: News 2010

This desublimation is repressive, Marcuse asserted, because it muffles social criticism and supports addictive consumerism.

NPR Topics: News 2010

It is the happiness of online "sharing," of participation in pseudoevents, of what Marcuse called repressive desublimation-the removal of moral and intellectual engagement from pleasure, and its transformation into a kind of compulsion or addiction.

PopMatters 2010

Or maybe we devalue valuable things because, as Herbert Marcuse observed, of society's tilt toward repressive desublimation.

NPR Topics: News 2010

This desublimation is repressive, Marcuse asserted, because it muffles social criticism and supports addictive consumerism.

NPR Topics: News 2010

1980 Constructivism, dialectic desublimation and socialism.

Ann Aguirre » Blog Archive » random essay generator 2007

Couldn’t figure out if the MC was corporal or amorphous or if there was some sort of desublimation going on here.

A BEDTIME STORY FOR BREEZY • by Kevin Shamel 2009