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Christopher Lasch pointed to the therapeutic dimensions of 1960s radicalism: \u201cActing out fantasies does not end repressions . . . it merely dramatizes the permissible limits of antisocial behavior. In the sixties and early seventies, radicals who transgressed these limits, under the illusion they were fomenting insurrection or \u2018doing gestalt therapy for the nation,\u2019 in Rubin\u2019s words . . . had so few practical results to show for their sacrifices that we are driven to conclude that they embraced radical politics in the first place not because it promised practical results but because it served as a new mode of self-dramatization.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Christopher Lasch pointed to the therapeutic dimensions of 1960s radicalism: \u201cActing out fantasies does not end repressions . . . it merely dramatizes the permissible limits of antisocial behavior. In the sixties and early seventies, radicals who transgressed these limits, under the illusion they were fomenting insurrection or \u2018doing gestalt therapy for the nation,\u2019 in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\n