>The Unconscious is/was/will always be a fetish.
It can be - and in much like the sense of the commodity, torn from its social context - but doesn't have to be. Within psychoanalysis, Roy Schafer wrote in the 1970s about the danger of reifying what vulgar Freudians called mental mechanisms, arguing in favor of an "action language" for psychoanalysis. But if you think of the unconscious as the creative product of individuals' personal histories, mixed with some admittedly vague notion of "constitution," then it doesn't have to be a fetish at all.
Doug