"He [Trump] has set the worst human impulses marching. But there are no clean slates in the unconscious."
— Rose, Jacqueline (b. 1949)
Author
Date
November 15, 2016
Metaphor
"He [Trump] has set the worst human impulses marching. But there are no clean slates in the unconscious."
Metaphor in Context
Our mistake was to think that the ugliness would finish Trump; now we can see that the worse he was, the more assured his path to the White House became. As the right has always been so skilled at doing, Trump has licensed the obscenity of the unconscious. He has set the worst human impulses marching. But there are no clean slates in the unconscious. Not for any of us. At the very moment we galvanise politically, we must remain as vigilant of ourselves as of everyone else. Otherwise, before we know where we are, we will simply have joined in the murderous rhetoric of hatred.
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Jacqueline Rose, "Donald Trump’s Victory is a Disaster for Modern Masculinity," The Guardian (November 15, 2016). <Link to www.theguardian.com>
Date of Entry
11/18/2016
