History of Civilization: Volume IV:
Richard Koenigsberg

In 1930, society seemed to be governed by an ironclad “reality principle”--that could not be resisted. "Reality" seemed a fixed, absolute thing: no idea of the "social construction of reality."

 Freud therefore was pessimistic that his dream of happiness (“the satisfaction of a wild instinctual impulse untamed by the ego”) could be fulfilled. The pleasure principle was “at loggerheads with the whole world;” there was "no possibility of its being carried through;" the “regulations of the universe ran counter to it.”

Yet something did happen--and Freud's theory of repression as a source of psychopathology played a significant role. A new form of reality came into being. As it turned out, human beings COULD construct a reality principle consistent with the pleasure principle.

A world beyond the rigid reality principle emerged in the Sixties, the Seventies, and--onward and upward. Human beings created a world where "wild instinctual impulses" were enacted.

 Today, the world Freud helped create, but could not have imagined, is everywhere. His theory that REPRESSION IS UNHEALTHY helped to give rise to this world.

 It's unusual that a human being today world has not experienced, at one time or another, the gratification of a wild instinctual impulse.

"If you missed it," as the O'Jays declared, "I feel sorry, sorry for you."
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