The Superego, In Censoring The

Obscenity Is A Moral Concept In The Verbal Arsenal Of The Establishment, Which Abuses The Term By Applying It, Not To Expressions Of Its Own Morality But To Those Of Another. Pbscene Is Not The Picture Of A Naked Woman Who Exposes Her Pubic Hair But That Of A Fully Clad General Who Exposes His Medals Rewarded In A War Of Aggression; Obscene Is Not The Ritual Of The Hippies But The Declaration Of A High Dignitary Of The Church That War Is Necessary For Peace.

Technical Progress And More Comfortable Living Permit The Systematic Inclusion Of Libidinal Components Into The Realm Of Commodity Production And Exchange. But No Matter How Controlled The Mobilization Of Instinctual Energy May Be (it Sometimes Amounts To A Scientific Management Of Libido), No Matter How Much It May Serve As A Prop For The Status Quo - It Is Also Gratifying To The Managed Individuals, Just As Racing The Outboard Motor, Pushing The Power Lawn Mower, And Speeding The Automobile Are Fun.

The Spontaneous Reproduction Of Superimposed Needs By The Individual Does Not Establish Autonomy; It Only Testifies To The Efficacy Of The Control.

Entertainment And Learning Are Not Opposites; Entertainment May Be The Most Effective Mode Of Learning.

Art Breaks Open A Dimension Inaccessible To Other Experience, A Dimension In Which Human Beings, Nature, And Things No Longer Stand Under The Law Of The Established Reality Principle...the Encounter With The Truth Of Art Happens In The Estranging Language And Images Which Make Perceptible, Visible, And Audible That Which Is No Longer, Or Not Yet, Perceived, Said, And Heard In Everyday Life.