The Liberal Psyche: Session One

I consider the present political situation as a psychomachia, a drama in which what any of the dramatis personae say or any of the bi-partisan accords they enact do no more than mask the “Unthought” that conceals the hidden heart of the matter. You cannot interpret and thus reach understanding with the Unthought because both interpretation and a hoped for understanding pursue with thought what has not the shape of thought, what has not yet been brought to a representation that we can think about.