http://ca.io9.com/5813475/10-psychological-states-youve-never-heard-of--and-when-you-experienced-them%253Fskyline%253Dtrue%2526s%253Di I found this helpful personally to describe some things that I have experienced, but it really would have been most useful to me to find this out about 5 years ago to help write my thesis. Number 7, Repressive Desublimation is essentially what I was arguing was going on in the Confucian system.
Why didn't anyone point me towards Marcuse back then?
P.S. Wow, it's been a long time since I used the thesis tag on an entry