It is human agitation, with all the vulgarity of needs small and great, with its flagrant disgust for the police who repress it, i...t is the agitation of all men ... that alone determines revolutionary mental forms, in opposition to bourgeois mental forms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are... reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything... that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... no human being is master of his fate, and ... we are all motivated far more than we care to admit by characteristics inherited... from our ancestors which individual experiences of childhood can modify, repress, or enhance, but cannot erase.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... social roles vary in the extent to which it is culturally permissible to express ambivalence or negative feelings toward them.... Ambivalence can be admitted most readily toward those roles that are optional, least where they are considered primary. Thus men repress negative feelings toward work and feel freer to express negative feelings toward leisure, sex and marriage, while women are free to express negative feelings toward work but tend to repress them toward family roles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »