Judging from the trafic and comments on this blog, the notion of "unconscious" remains unclear to some of the visitors. Here are some elements that may help clarify a concept which is not as complex as one thinks.
1. The unconscious is neither individual nor collective. Freud wrote :
"Mass psychology is the most primitive human psychology. Individual psychology is a more recent development"
2. The unconscious is not a second, deeper and more intimate ego, but :
"made up of pure externality"
3. Once this "myth of interiority" is done with, the unconscious reveals itself as being part of the social link, therefore closely related to language. Jacques Lacan :
"The unconscious is what you say" given also that "an act is a speech"
4. The question is who speaks ? Vincent Descombes :
"Institutions supply the meaning that individuals, in turn, make their own" so that
"Individuals are the authors of the sentences they make but not of the meaning of these sentences."
The business corporation being an institution, the role distribution becomes clear : what individuals say or do in their daily activity is suggested by the corporate unconscious, without being known to them.
This, I hope, will help. Comments are welcome.
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