In this modern age, with so much knowledge available and communicated, we tend to think we know our own minds. We focus on the rational, that is, goals to be accomplished and ways to reach them. We use moral and legal rules to control the unconscious wherein reside primeval instincts, drives and desires. We think we have skirted the unconscious, but we have not, even after bringing much to our conscious attention. We still have largely unconscious desires for power, sex, domination, cruelty and destruction. These include self-destruction and self-sacrifice. We still have strong unconscious desires for security and fears … Continue reading The State and the Unconscious