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Now, in tribal society there is no unconscious. It’s only the visual man, the highly literate man, who carefully stuffs things into his unconscious. The tribal man has everything up in his consciousness.
“Speaking Freely”, interview with Edwin Newman on WNBC-TV, December 27, 1970, transcript, p 912
Year: 1970
Chapter: Unconscious
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