The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of childhood begin to tell the truth that reason denies.

Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world.

Glorification of the 'natural' is part of the ideology which protects an unnatural society in its struggle against liberation.

Most people are afraid of freedom. They are conditioned to be afraid of it.

The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of childhood begin to tell the truth that reason denies.

The organism is thus being preconditioned for the spontaneous acceptance of what is offered. Inasmuch as the greater liberty involves a contraction rather than extension and development of instinctual needs, it works for rather than against the status quo of general repression - one might speak of "institutionalized desublimation". The latter appears to be a vital factor in the making of the authoritarian personality of our time.

The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.