Historically, repression is an event that favored the civilizing process, although it constitutes
a trauma for the human being, which happens from birth to death. The fundamental idea
explored in this Course Completion Work is to make a brief study on repression in order to
relate the thoughts of Freud and Marcuse to understand how the social body represses the
instincts to, in theory, promote social order and the good. -being common, but contradictorily
generating dissatisfaction in the sexual field, a malaise that needs to be sublimated and that
finds in the promise of happiness of capitalist societies a form of containment by the
introjectionof social determinations. Repression is a Freudian concept and the introjection of
the dominant order in capitalist societies, according to Marcuse, is done through the
repression of values consistent with the culture of consumption. Social performance is
aligned with erotic performance, as individuals who are obedient to social norms can be
rewarded, unlike those who place sexual impulses above social norms and suffer more
repression due to actions that violate social norms. In this perspective, work is seen as
something essentially strategic in capitalist societies, in the sense of making the individual
socially productive and able to reproduce the interests of the market and renounce class
interests, attached to the illusion that he will receive social benefits in exchange. and
financial. As Marcuse says, it is about the exchange of freedom for comfort, which does not
materialize for most workers who have renounced their instincts. Having clearly the reality
principle, he is responsible for delimiting the stimuli of the id, making the socially adapted
and/or dominated individual reproduce his existence in close relation with the reproduction
of the capitalist system of production and consumption and his sociability responds to what
determines the system, since the alienation, generated by the substitution of instincts for
productive economic activities, causes a false senseof satisfaction. The TCC discusses these
issues, seeking to bring to light the contradictions generated by the capitalist system, pointing
out how repression plays a fundamental role in social reproduction. The Critical Theory of
Society by the Frankfurtian philosopher Herbert Marcuse gains importance from Freudian
psychoanalysis and his theory of repression. Emphasizing that the human being ends up
being alienated in industrial society and repression comes as a libido accompanied by an
improvement of the happy workforce, by the compositionof false needs and affluent societies.
It is clear that organizations have their essential and repressive part in this system.
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