Roderick Journal Entry #7
Freud’s great discovery was the discovery of unconsciousness. The goal used to be that the id/it became the ego/I; meaning, the things that were unknown were sought after and reflected upon until it was understood. Then everything changed. Roderick says, “The account I am giving of this mass telecommunication culture – the postmodern culture – is that it’s goal is the opposite; that the “I” become “it”” (2/4 01:12-01:23 http://rickroderick.org/108-philosophy-and-post-modern-culture-1990/). When the “I” becomes “it,” the reflected and understood things/thoughts get tossed out and become forgotten. People no longer seek to know and understand things. In talking about Freud, Roderick says, “So the duplicity that Freud located in consciousness recurs in culture in an even more savage way. Because even in the most private parts of the “I”, where we think we are clearest, in principle we can’t be sure that they are not already invaded, inculturated, stamped, coded, filed, indexed” (2/4 07:07-07:31 http://rickroderick.org/108-philosophy-and-post-modern-culture-1990/). Thus, even the parts of our consciousness that we are sure are correct and thinking clearly; we really have no idea if that really is true or not. For all we know, our conscious minds could have been messed with, tweaked, and/or preprogrammed. We would never know it, thinking that we were thinking our own thoughts clearly.
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