Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 22:09:37 -0800
From: Carl Grimm <ctg5-AT-worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: M-PSY: "The Unconscious"


In the 30's I believe that the Reichian notion was the workers shared a 
kind of 'collective' unconsciounes that sort of moved the inchoate body 
to some sort of collective defensive posture driven by the dynamics and 
contradictions of the economy. The dynamics of these developments were 
not necesarily understood by individuals on any level of the 
emergent proleatarian hierarchy. The professed motivations of the 
protagonists did not necesarily coincide with the unfolding historical 
drama. As Hegel reminds us, "The Owl of Minerva flies at dusk." It is 
only after the event that we begin to,understand consciously the 
unconscious logic of history. This was essentially an optimistic 
doctrine. Subsequent experience has shown that the colonozation of the 
commodity has plumbed much deeper into the individual and collective 
psyche of all social formations than had previously been imagined.


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