The article provides a critical redefinition of such fundamental concepts as emancipation, representation, and censorship by examining the field of tensions created between these concepts in the area of emancipatory movements, especially in post-critical discourses, which emphasize ethical issues, or the queer theories that complicate the political and ethical meanings of artistic representations. Moreover, the author investigates the modern operationality of the censorship definition in the context of Freudian psychoanalysis