The concept of the unconscious was a trap, not a liberation for the mad

Evidence

The challenge of madness has historically been met by the hypothesis of the unconscious. The Unconscious is this logistical mechanism that permits us to think madness (and more generally all strange and anomalous formations) in a system of meaning opened to nonmeaning, which will make room for the terrors of the nonsensical, now intelligible under the auspices of a certain discourse: psychic life, drive, repression, etc. The mad were the ones who forced us to the hypothesis of the unconscious, but we are the ones in return who have trapped them there. Because if, initially, the Unconscious seems to turn against Reason and to bring to it a radical subversion, if it still seems charged with the potential of the rupture of madness, later it turns against madness, because it is what enables madness to be annexed to a reason more universal than classical reason. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 443

Categorization

• QUESTION: How does this Baudrillardian reading of the unconscious as containment square with contemporary neurodivergence discourse, which claims the reverse liberation? Worth chasing.
• XREF: connects to: The Freudian unconscious may be a historically contingent artifact, not a timeless structure — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 406; Existential psychoanalysis rejects the unconscious and makes psychic acts coextensive with consciousness — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1340; The Freudian unconscious is a historical product of disciplinary society, not a timeless formation. — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 91 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The Freudian unconscious is a historical product of disciplinary society, not a timeless formation. #corroborates (0.80) — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 91
• The Freudian unconscious may be a historically contingent artifact, not a timeless structure #corroborates (0.78) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 406
• Existential psychoanalysis rejects the unconscious and makes psychic acts coextensive with consciousness #corroborates (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1340
• The soul is the prison of the body, not its freeing essence #qualifies (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 79