Koenigsberg, Richard (July 7, 2021)

Culture is dependent rather than independent variable. Culture is transference; the projection of infantile and unconscious fantasies into the outer world. The transference neurosis is "reality." It's there for us to see; in front of our face. It's "brought to us" every single day. Night and day under the sun.

 Becoming conscious of the unconscious requires looking outward. However, we identify so deeply with the dream world we have created (in the good-old days, we called it the "reality principle").

In recent days, reality reveals itself as delusion. The dream world is disintegrating. It's a Nova violently exploding. Fragments scatter everywhere. All the king's horses and all the king's men--can put humpty-dumpty back together again.

Brown, Norman O. (1959/1985). Life against Death: the Psychoanalytic meaning of History. (page 154)

"The transformation of psychoanalysis into a project to change human culture is the solution to the unsolved problem of the transference.  The transference was necessary because the unconscious can become conscious only if it is transformed into an external perception, and the external perception had to be based on enactment and on actual love (or hate).  

"In  more technical terms, the unconscious can become conscious only through projection onto the external world.  But human culture is a set of projections of the repressed unconscious. Like the transference, human culture is created by the repetition compulsion and constantly produces new editions of the infantile conflicts.  Like the transference, human culture exists in order to project the infantile complexes into concrete reality, where they can be seen and mastered."