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==Late Capitalism==
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Back in the 1940s, Theodor Adorno pointed out how, in the [[late capitalism|late capitalist]] '[[administered world]]', the classical [[Freud]]ian notion of the [[ego]] as the mediating agency between the two extremes, the inner [[drive]]s of the [[id]] and the external social constraints of the superego]], is no longer operative: what we encounter in today's so-called [[narcissistic]] [[personality]] is a direct pact between superego and id at the expense of the ego. The basic lesson of the so-called '[[totalitarianism]]s' is that the social powers represented in superego pressure directly manipulate the [[subject]]'s [[obscene]] drives, bypassing the [[autonomous]] rational [[agency]] of the ego.<ref>[[Žižek, SSlavoj]]. (2000) [[The Fragile Absolute]], or Why the Christian Legacy is Worth Fighting For, London and New York: Verso. p.61-2</ref></blockquote>
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"Theodor Adorno claimed that what we are getting in the contemporary “administered world” and its “repressive desublimation” is no longer the old logic of social authority’s repression of the Id (the individual’s illicit aggressive drives). Rather, we have a perverse pact between the punitive Superego’s legally sanctioned social authority and the Id’s illicit aggressive drives at the expense of the Ego’s rationality."<ref>[[Žižek, Slavoj]]. [[Thanks, But We’ll Do It Ourselves]]: Against enlightened administration. In These Times. 29 June 2005.[http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2169/ link]</ref></blockquote>
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