{"product_id":"2940012101242","title":"FANTASIA OF THE UNCONSCIOUS","description":"INTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLet us start by making a little apology to Psychoanalysis. It wasn't\u003cbr\u003efair to jeer at the psychoanalytic unconscious; or perhaps it _was_\u003cbr\u003efair to jeer at the psychoanalytic unconscious, which is truly a\u003cbr\u003enegative quantity and an unpleasant menagerie. What was really not\u003cbr\u003efair was to jeer at Psychoanalysis as if Freud had invented and\u003cbr\u003edescribed nothing but an unconscious, in all his theory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe unconscious is not, of course, the clue to the Freudian theory.\u003cbr\u003eThe real clue is sex. A sexual motive is to be attributed to all human\u003cbr\u003eactivity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow this is going too far. We are bound to admit than an element of\u003cbr\u003esex enters into all human activity. But so does an element of greed,\u003cbr\u003eand of many other things. We are bound to admit that into all human\u003cbr\u003erelationships, particularly adult human relationships, a large\u003cbr\u003eelement of sex enters. We are thankful that Freud has insisted on\u003cbr\u003ethis. We are thankful that Freud pulled us somewhat to earth, out of\u003cbr\u003eall our clouds of superfineness. What Freud says is always _partly_\u003cbr\u003etrue. And half a loaf is better than no bread.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut really, there is the other half of the loaf. All is _not_ sex. And\u003cbr\u003ea sexual motive is _not_ to be attributed to all human activities. We\u003cbr\u003eknow it, without need to argue.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSex surely has a specific meaning. Sex means the being divided into\u003cbr\u003emale and female; and the magnetic desire or impulse which puts male\u003cbr\u003eapart from female, in a negative or sundering magnetism, but which\u003cbr\u003ealso draws male and female together in a long and infinitely varied\u003cbr\u003eapproach towards the critical act of coition. Sex without the\u003cbr\u003econsummating act of coition is never quite sex, in human\u003cbr\u003erelationships: just as a eunuch is never quite a man. That is to say,\u003cbr\u003ethe act of coition is the essential clue to sex.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow does all life work up to the one consummating act of coition? In\u003cbr\u003eone direction, it does, and it would be better if psychoanalysis\u003cbr\u003eplainly said so. In one direction, all life works up to the one\u003cbr\u003esupreme moment of coition. Let us all admit it, sincerely.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut we are not confined to one direction only, or to one exclusive\u003cbr\u003econsummation. Was the building of the cathedrals a working up towards\u003cbr\u003ethe act of coition? Was the dynamic impulse sexual? No. The sexual\u003cbr\u003eelement was present, and important. But not predominant. The same in\u003cbr\u003ethe building of the Panama Canal. The sexual impulse, in its widest\u003cbr\u003eform, was a very great impulse towards the building of the Panama\u003cbr\u003eCanal. But there was something else, of even higher importance, and\u003cbr\u003egreater dynamic power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd what is this other, greater impulse? It is the desire of the human\u003cbr\u003emale to build a world: not \"to build a world for you, dear\"; but to\u003cbr\u003ebuild up out of his own self and his own belief and his own effort\u003cbr\u003esomething wonderful. Not merely something useful. Something wonderful.\u003cbr\u003eEven the Panama Canal would never have been built _simply_ to let\u003cbr\u003eships through. It is the pure disinterested craving of the human male\u003cbr\u003eto make something wonderful, out of his own head and his own self, and\u003cbr\u003ehis own soul's faith and delight, which starts everything going. This\u003cbr\u003eis the prime motivity. And the motivity of sex is subsidiary to this:\u003cbr\u003eoften directly antagonistic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat is, the essentially religious or creative motive is the first\u003cbr\u003emotive for all human activity. The sexual motive comes second. And\u003cbr\u003ethere is a great conflict between the interests of the two, at all\u003cbr\u003etimes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat we want to do, is to trace the creative or religious motive to\u003cbr\u003eits source in the human being, keeping in mind always the near\u003cbr\u003erelationship between the religious motive and the sexual. The two\u003cbr\u003egreat impulses are like man and wife, or father and son. It is no use\u003cbr\u003eputting one under the feet of the other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe great desire to-day is to deny the religious impulse altogether,\u003cbr\u003eor else to assert its absolute alienity from the sexual impulse. The\u003cbr\u003eorthodox religious world says faugh! to sex. Whereupon we thank Freud\u003cbr\u003efor giving them tit for tat. But the orthodox scientific world says\u003cbr\u003efie! to the religious impulse. The scientist wants to discover a cause\u003cbr\u003efor everything. And there is no cause for the religious impulse. Freud\u003cbr\u003eis with the scientists. Jung dodges from his university gown into a\u003cbr\u003epriest's surplice till we don't know where we are. We prefer Freud's\u003cbr\u003e_Sex_ to Jung's _Libido_ or Bergson's _Elan Vital_. Sex has at least\u003cbr\u003e_some_ definite reference, though when Freud makes sex accountable for\u003cbr\u003eeverything he as good as makes it accountable for nothing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe refuse any _Cause_, whether it be Sex or Libido or Elan Vital or\u003cbr\u003eether or unit of force or _perpetuum mobile_ or anything else. But\u003cbr\u003ealso we feel that we cannot, like Moses, perish on the top of our\u003cbr\u003epresent","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175958003952,"sku":"2940012101242","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012101242_p0.jpg?v=1763552221","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012101242","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}