Paradoxically, then, the first age of print introduced the 
first age of the unconscious. Since print allowed only a narrow 
segment of sense to dominate the other senses, the refugees 
had to discover another home for themselves. We have seen 
how aware of this meaning of the effects of print were the 
Spaniards. Don Quixote  is as much as Lear  a demonstration of 
the dichotomies of mind and heart and sense instituted by the 
printed book. More practical nations preferred to live out  these 
consequences rather than to meditate upon them in live art 
models.

     Lancelot Law Whyte in his The Unconscious before Freud  
gives some idea of the rise of the “discovery” of the 
unconscious as a result of the restriction of conscious life 
within the extreme limits of print technology. “Sink deep or 
touch not the Cartesian spring” is the relevant jest of Joyce in