The Unconscious
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The Conscious and the Unconscious Are Not Things
The self is not a thing like other things, although i have a complicated view on that, which some day i will write a book about. For derita, the unconscious has a trace like structure. It seems to complicate any simple distinction or dicodomy between the present and the past. And i think you see this very clearly in freud's patients, who, through their symptoms, they're always experiencing the present as a re staging or re enactment of the past. That's simply what the present is for them. Isit? The temporal somewhat bizarre, because we experience in the here and now something that has actually been there all along.
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