Globalized capital has colonized the once-alien depths of the unconscious

Evidence

The terrain that Inception lays out is no longer that of the classical unconscious, that impersonal factory which, Jean-Francois Lyotard says, psychoanalysis described ‘with the help of images of foreign towns or countries such as Rome or Egypt, just like Piranesi’s Prisons or Escher’s Other Worlds’. … Inception’s arcades and hotel corridors are indeed those of a globalised capital, whose reach easily extends into the former depths of what was once the unconscious. There is nothing alien, no other place here, only a ‘subconscious’ recirculating deeply familiar images mined from an ersatz psychoanalysis. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 531

Categorization

• XREF: The colonization of subjective interiority by economic order connects to Frederic Jameson’s postmodernism arguments and to the Frankfurt School’s account of the culture industry internalizing itself. — connects to: Capital is a transcendent force that estranges life from itself — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 193; Globalised capital has colonised the depths that Freud called the unconscious. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 531; Late capitalism is the purest form of capital, colonizing nature and the unconscious — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 128 (+1 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that a literal architecture of capitalism has replaced the unconscious’s alienness through ‘sub’ rather than ‘un’ consciousness — the mundane, pre-chewed scripted scene standing in for the disorienting enigma of Freud’s case histories — is a dense convergence of cultural criticism and psychoanalytic theory resisting easy summary.

Broader Connections

• Globalised capital has colonised the depths that Freud called the unconscious. #corroborates (1.00) — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 531
• Late capitalism is the purest form of capital, colonizing nature and the unconscious #corroborates (0.90) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 128
• Late capitalism replaces the Freudian unconscious with corporate-authored dream spaces #complicates (0.80) — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 532