01/20/2024
A friend wore me today about her worry for the country! Here is a part of what I shared:
Freud wrote about the “pre-conscious“ as a metaphor for a “hotel lobby“ where, if you travel through it, you might see some things and people and bring them into your awareness. However, he noted that in the hotel, there was a kind of “VIP lounge“ or people were smoking ci**rs and an exclusive group that you couldn’t see unless they decided to come out into the lobby. He called that“unconscious“! I am afraid that the complexity of understanding the overthrow, the GOP and the reestablishment of the MAGA party is the problem of that party living in the preconscious bubble, where they only see people and their hotel in life in the world, but they have no clue what the parts of themselves really are in that sequestered, unavailable, VIP lounge that is paranoid, hostel, and destructive! This is why you can’t talk to them about reality, and the world outside the hotel!
Dr. M
