>In other words, the
>"unconscious" was politically constructed by the anticommunist rhetoric in
>such a way that any and every American would have to fear the accusation of
>being an unwitting "dupe" of Communists, therefore having to police their
>"psyche" and invent a "new more vigilant self."
What does this have to do with the Freudian unconscious, a concept that predates the Cold War by about 50 years (and the PR industry by about 20, though Freud's relative Edward Bernays had a lot to do with its development)?
Doug