The Scarlet Letter, Revised; Or, Vicissitudes of the Utopian Fantasy of “A New Sexual Person”: Commentary on Papers on President Clinton's Impeachment

Abstract

It is not difficult to suppose that under the domination of a civilized sexual morality the health and efficiency of single individuals may be liable to impairment and that ultimately this injury to them, caused by the sacrifices imposed on them, may reach such a pitch that, by this indirect path, the cultural aim in view will be endangered as well [Freud, 1908, p. 181].