Orwell, George — Nineteen eighty-four [1082]

For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that could be given a name. From now onwards he must not only think right; he must feel right, dream right. And all the while he must keep his hatred locked up inside him like a ball of matter which was part of himself and yet unconnected with the rest of him, a kind of cyst. — Orwell, George, Nineteen eighty-four, 1082

Note

Orwell extends the Panopticon inward: the new demand is that the subject surveil his own feelings and dreams, hiding the secret even from his own consciousness. The ‘cyst’ image — part of the self yet unconnected, matter that must not be named — is the perfect physical analogy for the self-alienated emotion.