A future-oriented unconscious drives creation forward into the not-yet-existent

Evidence

Yet none of this means that we should, or that we can, give up in our attempts to steer the juggernaut. The minimising of high-consequence risks transcends all values and all exclusionary divisions of power. “History” is not on our side, has no teleology, and supplies us with no guarantees. But the heavily counterfactual nature of future-oriented thought, an essential element of the reflexivity of modernity, has positive as well as negative implications. For we can envisage alternative futures whose very propagation might help them be realised. What is needed is the creation of models of Utopian realism. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 365 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Freud’s past-oriented unconscious finds its mirror image in a future-oriented not-yet-consciousness — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 253; Imagining alternative futures can help bring them into being — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 365; Creative maturation requires slow shadow-time beyond the reactive instant — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1771 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Imagining alternative futures can help bring them into being #corroborates (0.85) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 365