The unconscious emerges from the loss of territory

Evidence

Animals have no unconscious, because they have a territory. Men have only had an unconscious since they lost a territory. At once territories and metamorphoses have been taken from them - the unconscious is the individual structure of mourning in which this loss is incessantly, hopelessly replayed - animals are the nostalgia for it. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 455

Categorization

• DEFINE: Baudrillard redefines the unconscious not as a buried structure but as the individual mourning-structure produced by territorial loss.
• XREF: Connects to Deleuze and Guattari’s deterritorialization and the ‘rhizome’ referenced later in the chapter; also inverses Freud’s topography. — connects to: Passing through a place means simultaneously being there and not being there — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 640; The unconscious is a mourning-structure born of lost territory. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 455; A displaced group’s collective unconscious changes within a century (+2 more)
• QUESTION: How does this Baudrillardian redefinition of the unconscious sit against Jameson’s reading of the postmodern subject as ‘decentered’ and lacking deep interiority?

Broader Connections

• The colonial subject experiences displacement from a center located elsewhere #exemplifies (0.80)
• A displaced group’s collective unconscious changes within a century #expands (0.75)