Man’s privilege now rests on monopolizing the unconscious, not consciousness.

Evidence

One never escapes the reversion that follows any kind of exclusion. Refusing reason to madmen leads sooner or later to dismantling the bases of this reason - the mad take revenge in some way. Refusing animals the unconscious, repression, the symbolic (confused with language) is, one can hope, sooner or later (in a sort of disconnection subsequent to that of madness and of the unconscious) to put in question once again the validity of these concepts, just as they govern and distinguish us today. Because, if formerly the privilege of Man was founded on the monopoly of consciousness, today it is founded on the monopoly of the unconscious. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 450

Categorization

• XREF: Reverses Foucault’s genealogy of exclusion (madness figuring reason), extending it from the mad to animals; resonates with the chapter title ‘The Animals: Territory and Metamorphoses’. — connects to: True alterity requires a conscious peer, not a passive object to consume. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 317; The collective unconscious is socially acquired, not inherited genetically. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 664; The private inner mind is a historically recent construct rather than a universal — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 427 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Denying conscious control is itself a moral position of nonaccountability #complicates (0.80) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 315
• The concept of the unconscious was a trap, not a liberation for the mad #complicates (0.78) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 443
• The collective unconscious is socially acquired, not inherited genetically. #expands (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 664
• Subjects now exploit themselves voluntarily, leaving no exploiter to blame for exhaustion. #expands (0.75) — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 35
• True alterity requires a conscious peer, not a passive object to consume. #qualifies (0.72) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 317
• The private inner mind is a historically recent construct rather than a universal #expands (0.72) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 427