And so it is a return of the repressed — Mad Men. The entire show is one big game of sublimated knowledge: Who knows what about who slept with whom? Lust and greed are the currency at the offices of Sterling Cooper. When mixing power and sex, desire and deception are the emotional outcomes. Advertising is merely the by-product of this formula applied to capitalism.
— And because I’m sure I’ve had this conversation before with Rex, I’m guessing that his pegging it to Advertising is an act of sublimation itself.
