Sublime

The transformation of the marriage of Freud and Marx, however, from shotgun status to one of genuine love was to take place at the hands of two men, one informally associated with the Frankfurt School, the other perhaps its most significant and influential activist intellectual:

Wilhelm Reich and Herbert Marcuse, respectively. These two figures are

one idea, one note was only as valuable as its context, which was not necessarily the context it was taken from.

Ehrenberg is also interested in tracing our cultural history. Particularly, he’s interested in how modernity’s unfolding has produced distinct forms of mental illness. Ehrenberg wants to show us how these distinct forms tell us something important about modernity itself.

“If you would care to understand human behavior,” Dr. Coutu said, “investigate the stimuli which produce it.”

As the metaphysical distance between desiring subject and model diminishes—the key component of internal mediation—the potential for rivalry and violence increases.

Freud seemed to assume that culture could be seen as a bound whole, believing that there is such a thing as a culture. And because there is this singular culture, it can be jammed, disrupted, and replaced with its counter.