There is a social aspect consisting in tendentiously emphasizing all the cases in which ideals are presented as illusory, values as pure convention, institutions as unjust and defective. Corresponding to that, this culture emphasizes the higher right of life, instinct, the irrational, the purely “human” and, in a certain special domain, creates the new superstition of the subconscious, the unconscious, the libido and primigenial eros as the true root of existence and the human person. Continue reading →