When the ruling ideology enjoin us to enjoy sex, there should be no taboos, there is no need to feel guilty about anything, No they exhort us,
since we are not bound or should be by any prohibitions
whose violations should make us feel guilty.
However the price we pay for this absence
of guilt, as if guilt purges us, is anxiety. It is in this precise sense that—as Lacan put it,following
Freud—anxiety is the only emotion that does not deceive all other emotions, (although one could argue this) from
sorrow to love, are based on deceit.Again,backto Chesterton:when he writes that
“Christianity is the only frame forpagan freedom,”this means
that,precisely,this frame—the frame of prohibitions—is the only frame within
which we can enjoy paganpleasures:the feeling of guilt is a fake enabling us to
give ourselvesover to pleasures—when this frame falls away,a
Again,back to Chesterton:when he writes that
“Christianity is the only frame for pagan freedom,”this means
that, precisely, this frame—the frame of prohibitions—is the only frame within
which we can enjoy pagan pleasures:the feeling of guilt is a fake enabling us to
give ourselves over to pleasures—when this frame falls away,
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