“To say that historical conditions made personal life possible, and with it the self-consciousness that allowed psychoanalysis to emerge, is to tell half the story: one also has to consider that the erotic impulse, ever pressing for satisfaction, had something to do with making the history that encouraged its expression.” MadeSelfStoriesHalfConsciousnessConditionsExpressionHistoricalSatisfactionImpulsePersonal LifeEroticPsychoanalysisSelf ConsciousnessHalf The Story Author:Ellen Willis
“My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.” SeemsSpiritualityAttitudeOptimismOptimisticImpulseSuspectsPessimism Book:Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-And-Roll Source: Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-And-Roll
“Often men's impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate for feelings of rejection, humiliation, and impotence: as many men see it, they need women sexually more than women need them, an intolerable balance of power.” MenNeedsFeelingsSeemsDesireBalanceImpulseRejectionAssumptionHumiliationSexuallyDominanceDegradeImpotenceCoerceBalance Of Power Book:No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays Source: No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays
