Life against Death: The Psychoanalytic Meaning of History (CLICK LINK)

Norman O. Brown: “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 through projection onto the external world.

"Like the transference, human culture constantly produces new editions of 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.

"Human culture is thus one vast arena in which the logic of the transference works itself out. The infantile fantasies cannot be directly apprehended or mastered, but their derivatives in human can. Culture does for all mankind what the transference phenomena were supposed to do for the individual.”

Koenigsberg: Culture exists IN ORDER TO…Finally reversing the fatuous concept of “culture determinism,” which suggests that what is inner or inside comes to us from outside. But where does the outside come from.

We may look at culture as a dependent variable, the unconscious as the independent variable. The world “out there” is created by the world inside of us.