The repressed, irrational characteristics does return in modernity and is characterized by a return that simultaneously serves to benefit instrumental rationality through culture. The subject remains fundamentally passive; there remains nothing for the consumer to classify, since all classification is passed through the culture industry.26 Hit songs, stars, and soap operas recur cyclically and invariably, while even the particular or specific content is generated from these types.27 Implicit in this notion is the constant instantiation of closure; the songs, films, follow the formula and eventually end, any difference, invariant or ambiguity is swiftly punished. Power promises happiness based off of an eventual control and an eventual mastery.
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Since language no longer, "hooks up" to the corporeal, we have an increased case of a subject-without-subjectivity. As referenced above this rigidification occurs because of this core ambivalence and the subject's weakened capacity to deal with this ambiguity of their own being. Since rationality has undermined the very process of the impartial and masterful I as predominantly metaphysical, the subject rigidifies themselves on the basis of instrumentally applicable categories of identity politics, and psychiatric disorders, the "left" or "right" objectifying themselves further. The subject is a statistic, a successful or unsuccessful adaptation to the objectivity of their function.33 Dialectically, the subject's capacity to even have an experience becomes radically diminished or removed, they are victim to the abstract, perpetual, sameness. The modern psychoanalytic subject comes to embrace a rigid and static …show more content…
The desire to mastery on the part of the subject is increasingly alienated due to a simultaneous active and abstract mastery compounded with a still-present, passive and ambiguous corporeality. The fact that the only authority is an abstract one will lead towards a desire to transgress this dichotomy through new authoritarian leaders and policies. These authoritarian leaders exemplify this contradictory imago: simultaneously aggressive and thin-skinned, rational and irrational, and in perfect control of the upcoming train-wreck; an idealism stemming from a nihilism stemming from a failed idealism. Denying the rigid, fixed structures of identity and avoiding "salvation" by paying attention to the past may be the only way for a revolt to
Since language no longer, "hooks up" to the corporeal, we have an increased case of a subject-without-subjectivity. As referenced above this rigidification occurs because of this core ambivalence and the subject's weakened capacity to deal with this ambiguity of their own being. Since rationality has undermined the very process of the impartial and masterful I as predominantly metaphysical, the subject rigidifies themselves on the basis of instrumentally applicable categories of identity politics, and psychiatric disorders, the "left" or "right" objectifying themselves further. The subject is a statistic, a successful or unsuccessful adaptation to the objectivity of their function.33 Dialectically, the subject's capacity to even have an experience becomes radically diminished or removed, they are victim to the abstract, perpetual, sameness. The modern psychoanalytic subject comes to embrace a rigid and static …show more content…
The desire to mastery on the part of the subject is increasingly alienated due to a simultaneous active and abstract mastery compounded with a still-present, passive and ambiguous corporeality. The fact that the only authority is an abstract one will lead towards a desire to transgress this dichotomy through new authoritarian leaders and policies. These authoritarian leaders exemplify this contradictory imago: simultaneously aggressive and thin-skinned, rational and irrational, and in perfect control of the upcoming train-wreck; an idealism stemming from a nihilism stemming from a failed idealism. Denying the rigid, fixed structures of identity and avoiding "salvation" by paying attention to the past may be the only way for a revolt to