Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it while to remember is to be set free

Freud is heir to the Platonic tradition of Western thought and its two paramount assumptions

1. That sexuality is 'lower', more base, whereas art music literature are 'higher'

It regards the sexual as the human area of vulnerability 

Human libidinal forces (the sexual urge) are uncontrollable

and subject to unredeeming human conflict, prey to frustration

(if you don't get your way) agression and other nasty emotional states, so the repressive nature of culture itself is required to harness self repressive elements in its subjects, which results in neurosis and even bring about amnesia about ones human desires and not to know the past is to be in bondage to it while to remember is to be set free

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