This section is organized as a conceptual roadmap to demonstrate the applicability of a substance-unconscious for a contemporary diagnosis. It begins with Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s ideas of the plane of consistency and becoming-animal, connecting through Friedrich Nietzsche’s unhistorical man and horizonality to Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi’s caution of a third unconscious arising out of the post-coronavirus crisis, which is encapsulated by Catherine Malabou’s idea of destructive plasticity that underscores the depressive and depersonalized states of the body when the mind is in distress. To conclude, I will speculate what could arise as the third unconscious. Each concept carries forward, implicitly or explicitly, Spinoza’s insistence of the body and affect, and the importance of creation with regard to the unconscious, and each philosopher offers a stepping-stone to a larger and integrated understanding of how we can conceptualize a substance-unconscious.
Tag: the unconscious
The Oedipal Complex & The Unconscious & Love
The Oedipal complex is a hardwired pattern that commits me to the world, it forces me to latch onto another object besides myself. It is a mechanism of the unconscious; that subliminal yet perpetually active region of the brain that instinctively, inherently drives me towards a particular way of operating and comporting myself within the world. As opposed to my conscious, ego-self, in which I feel a sense of will that opens to me the choice of objects I wish to urge myself towards with the expectation of opportunistically achieving satisfaction.[1] The Oedipal complex is the mechanism within the unconscious that commits me towards another, it is the bridge in which I cross in order to be able to love the other.