Abstract: In this paper, I examine whether we can legitimately argue that primary lives in both the US and the UK are manufactured using materials extracted from popular culture – from secondary cultural activity. The equivalent of Freud’s sublimation, but in reverse.
Keywords: Binary oppositions, binarisation, Freud, America, Britain, US/UK, Usuk, Steven Spielberg, Hollywood, Dr. Strangelove , E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Superman, Christopher Reeve, Marlon Brando, 9/11, Twin Towers, The Towering Inferno, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Airplane, USSR, war on terror, jihadi, terror, terrorism, Iraq, Afghanistan, Cold War, Soviet Union, Big Data, disproportionality, psychosis, psychotic , Syria, democracy, rule of law, vampire, folklore, George Bush, Tony Blair, American Civil War, Cuban Missile Crisis, life of the nation, East Enders, Coronation Street, celebrities, Voldemort, Death Eaters, Harry Potter, Sauron, Black Riders, Tolkien, Aragorn, Lord of the Rings, Frodo Baggins, Dark Lord, Smeagol, slavery, sublimation, reverse sublimation, desublimation, racism, schizophrenia, hallucinations, delusions, disaster movies, science fiction, thrillers, dramas, horror films, James Bond, UFO, X-files, Edmund Burke, sublime, beautiful, Stakeknife, pornography, Almoravids, Umayyards, al-Andalus, Marrakech, Berbers, Almohads, Morocco, Muhammad I, Granada, Palaces of Alhambra, Sierra Nevada, Ibn Zamrak, the Court of the Lions, Good Friday Agreement, IRA, ETA, Mohammed Emwazi, Jihadi John.
Title: Desublimation: Freud’s Sublimation in Reverse
Author: Fred Perez
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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