robt's blogquacious

"Now you may ask how come I am able to speak about unconscious aspects as this is - per definition - not directly 'visible'? The answer is very simple: Writers TELL us about their motives. And ONE aspect that stuck to my mind because I found that very often is sentences like: 'I JUST CAN'T STOP IT! '... even knowing it is dangerous (writers got killed...) and forbidden by society. I know of very few expressions that so clearly show the enormous FORCE and POWER that hides behind these plain words that move a person to extremes: taking risks, doing expert planning, going out at night, racking spraycans, almost having to become an acrobat. This means he is - like in some neurosis (anancastic cases...) - moved like some 'puppet on strings 'and this aspect of some INVISIBLE INFLUENCE (Socrates spoke about some 'god' here....) generating some COMPULSION is enough for me to know we have to deal with UNCONSCIOUS aspects of greatest importance. Say we are being confronted by COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS... wouldn't that be something?!"