Was Paul M's Eagleton tidbit on THE UNCONSCIOUS

[Mark Kohut]

Can't find the email but if I remember, Paul said that Terry Eagleton 
has written that it may be THE UNCONSCIOUS that is the creativeness
that unites writers. Been thinkin' on that.
 
While I read a good esssay on Kenneth Burke since he was mentioned
(by Monte and Wayne Booth, I believe). Burke seemed to believe that
all great writers (in recent centuries anyway) can be seen as articulating 
values somehow---almost by definition---different from the prevailing, largely tacit, structural
 values of a society. That is their necessary tension (or else they are just PR-like journalists).
this summary is obviously mine, fyi.
 
Anyway, Burke's pattern-finding leads one--me--to thoughts of the countervailing
symbols in TRP, from W.A.S.T.E/Trystero to CounterForce, etc...
 
and how with a tight but wide understanding of 'the prevailing ideas of a society'
almost any tension and insight might have to come from an Unconsciousness outside of 
it. And, to loop TRP back in, we know he has some Freudian-Jungian notions about history
and the societies that make that history.
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