a little more McLuhan (& maybe Pynchon)

[Mark Kohut]

I think this is nudging up against Jung's undifferentiated,
pre-conscious mind, a mind not yet able to distinguish the sources of
sensation, not yet aware of the difference between inside and outside.
This would be the pre-fall Adam, the pre-conscious human.

Given a crayon, one of the first forms a child draws is a closed
circle.  That is one of the first expressions of the emerging
awareness of self vs others/outside.

David Morris

yes, it's nudging right up against that and I have thought of some children's ways of 
expression too.....

but McLuhan did seem to mean through all of adulthood and grown-up thought that was fully self-conscious...

One metaphoric image I get is of someone talking about a great meal, the preparing, the smoky pit (if it is)
etc........for all.  As if we would all be verbal food critics....use our hands too......Proustian-like madelines in every 
elaborated detail....




On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 'Inner life' in McLuhan's vision, although self-awareness, of course, is sense perception, all of them, full and rich, embedding feelings, emotions, etc...with which most of the world 'thought' before the phonetic alphabet narrowed and monopolized our senses.........