Thursday, February 22, 2018

World Wide Web and its Discontents

The most influential contemporary concept of Soul, Freud's, is Atomist.  By reducing the species' reproductive drive to privately experienced 'sexuality', and abstracting his sub-personal Id from Nietzsche's super-personal Dionysian principle, Freud isolates the personal Psyche from the rest of society.  Accordingly, a person is in a fundamentally antagonistic relation to the Super-Ego, to "Civilization", etc.  Hence, it is unclear how, or even if, Freudian Psychology might register the World Wide Web experience.  In contrast, by the restoration of the Id to its origin as a species drive, i. e. to what can be called the Super-Id, the World Wide Web can be recognized as a manifestation of the Super-Id, i. e. a product of a species drive, the discontents with respect to which are Ego-based civilizations, i. e. Atomist societies.

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