
Ep. 236: Judith Butler Interview: "The Force of Nonviolence"
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Relationship Between the Imagination and the Unconscious
I think we all engage in deliberate acts of imagining a world I would like to see or like to live in. Many philosophical positions do ask us almost immediately to enter into a hypothetical and they depend upon the imagination in some ways. At the same time, we have to ask what's the relationship between the imagination that we control and dimensions of fantasy that are invaded by the unconscious or maybe even orchestrated. So when we think we're engaged in a certain kind of mental activity, we might be also symbolically engaged in some other form of unconscious mental activity.
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