A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Anyhow, Darwin broke up anthropocentric consciousness just as Copernicus had done for space. Yet till Freud, man somehow clung to some scrap of intuition of consciousness as tinged by spontaneity. But Freud ended that by his image of mind as ripple on the ocean of unconsciousness.
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man, (1962), p 251
Year: 1962
Chapters: Corporate | Unconscious
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