The Question of Lay Analysis by Sigmund Freud (1926) — Books & Boots

The Question of Lay Analysis by Sigmund Freud (1926)

This is probably as good of a summary of Freudianism as I have found. What we would probably call today “Cultural Freudianism” was the most powerful force driving American thought (such as it was) in the 1960’s and early 1970’s. I also think it has ruined our culture by turning life into a hypersexualised mind game. The rule of our society by an elite whose main goal in life (beyond self-perpetuation in power) is to get “laid, high or drunk” is buttressed by Freudian concepts, and our shift to a therapeutic society certainly has its roots in Freudian psychoanalysis.

It’s interesting to note that the article states the following:

The odd thing is that those feelings go into abeyance at about age 5 and are suppressed. Much is forgotten or loses its attraction during this period, the latency period. During the latency period the child builds up what we call reaction-formations, of disgust and shame, which combine with what it is told by parents to form a ‘morality’, something missing from the first five years as any parent knows and hard enough to instil into the older child.

This is the period when rules of behaviour, when ethics and morality, when right and wrong are instilled into the child who is repeatedly told that the simple gratification of its wishes (as in the early years) is ‘dirty’, ‘naughty’, ‘bad’ etc. From an evolutionary point of view you can see why the tribes who managed to do this to their young probably functioned better and survived.

We believe what happens is that the child needs a respite between the purely instinctual development of the early years, and the eruption of strength and renewed desires and lusts at puberty.

Civilization, therefore, is based on the effective repression of individual desires. A good citizen represses their desires effectively; a bad citizen either gratifies themself in an anti-social way, or falls prey to the kind of illness we began by looking at.

The sexualisation of life at all phases–including this one–has been the goal of cultural Freudians and their paedophilic allies for a long time, and we see that coming back with a vengeance these days in the trans movement. But civilisation indeed depends on the suppression of these desires; no suppression, no civilisation, which is where we are headed without a jolting course change.