ABSTRACT
In the previous chapter I briefly introduced the distinction between basic and surplus repression, developed out of Freud by Marcuse, and given definitive expression in a book that should be far better known than it is: Repression, by Gad Horowitz. The book’s subtitle is “Basic and Surplus Repression in Psychoanalytic Theory: Freud, Reich, Marcuse”; it is dense,
often difficult, very closely and cogently argued, and the account offered here is necessarily bald and simplified.
