There is no human mother or father who is not a child; there is no original combined-parent. The unconscious microcosm is not a parent; the primal scene is a preconscious fantasy. When the light of consciousness switches on the whole family is just there, mom, pop, and the kids. The family is the engine of production; the dynamic relationship between the genders and the generations is the play itself.

The unconscious process generates nothing; its movements are all lateral. The generator, the gentital organ, the gen does not incorporate the unconscious process, rather, through mutual incorporation between the members of the genital organization, the genital body seals itself off from the unconscious process. Consciouness is an immune system.

Our knowledge of the unconscious process comes to us only with great resistance; the movement of consciousness is a resistance movement. The tribal circle describes the mothering womb; the hidden agenda is to remain unborn. "The exodus is an initiation; the wandering is a rite of passage from Troy to New Troy, from England to New England. From the mother to the mother; we are getting nowhere." Love's Body. 41. There are things we do not want to know.