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DanaDelgerFirstPaper 12 - 24 Jan 2010 - Main.DanaDelger
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In Freud's view, the dream-wish is suppressed because of its awful nature; the dream wish is incest and murder, sexual depravity and blood. In order for civilization (not civilized society, but civilization ) to survive, these desires, which all men share, must be constantly suppressed. To Freud, no world which gave form to the terrible dreams of man could sustain itself, and the satisfaction of every man’s desire would lead to the total dissolution of society. Man shouldn't have everything he wants, because the things he wants, deep down, are poison to his body and his world, and this is as true for those dreams of endless consumption as they are for those of violence and death. | |
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< | It is this insight that should make us fear unhampered access to our machinized memory. Though the dream-ads produced by the Facebook don't share the same skin as those whose fulfillment Freud posited to be harbingers of the end, they are, at their core, the same. The dream-ad is the dream of constant consumption and, accordingly, constant debt; it is a trap by which the desire to consume---to fulfill the wish--- enslaves us to a system which depends for its own existence on the degradation of many at the expense of the few. If every desire is gratified, we may never be able to turn away from the capitalism which will one day dissolve us. A digital dream which makes it impossible to do so is one that we should awaken from, as if a nightmare. | >
> | It is this insight that should make us fear unhampered access to our machinized memory. Though the dream-ads produced by the Facebook don't share the same skin as those whose fulfillment Freud posited to be harbingers of the end, they are, at their core, the same. The dream-ad is the dream of constant consumption and, accordingly, constant debt; it is a bottomless vessel, a trap by which the desire to consume---to fulfill the wish--- enslaves us to a system which depends for its own existence on the degradation of many at the expense of the few. If every desire is gratified, we may never be able to turn away from the capitalism which will one day dissolve us. A digital dream which makes it impossible to do so is one that we should awaken from, as if a nightmare. | | |
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