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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