A 1955 book posits that this phenomenon affects people through an “ontogenetic” approach and that civilizations characterized by this phenomenon originate through a “phylogenetic” approach. Julia Kristeva defined the abject as facing a “primal” form of this phenomenon. This phenomenon’s “surplus” form derives from the performance principle, unlike its “basic” form. This phenomenon characterizes a mode of “desublimation” caused by consumer culture, per (*) Herbert Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization. The History of Sexuality critiques the “hypothesis” that sexuality has been subject to this phenomenon since the 1600s. In Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud claims that civilization requires using this phenomenon on one's instincts. (10[1])For 10 points, name this defense mechanism of blocking unwanted desires or memories (10[1])from the conscious mind. ■END■