This Korean work is a gem as a laboratory of repressed sexual urges and social self-control to the point of pretence and the daily breath of hypocrisy instead of oxygen. It is worth remembering that around 1930, Freud was investigating ‘happiness’, and in chapter III of his essay Das Unbehagen in der Kultur, ‘Civilisation and its Discontents’ he observes ‘the three sources from which our suffering springs: the supremacy of nature, the transience of our own bodies, and the inadequacy of the norms regulating the relations of men to one another in the family, the State, and society… […] much of t…
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