Psychoanalysis has never been accepted into the scientific community. This makes sense, as the unconscious process is unscientific. Biology or physiology are technologies of human consciousness, tools or extensions of the waking body. These technologies are useless in relation to the unconscious process; they have no effect. The waking body, in effect, turns it back, on the pleasure principle and embraces the reality principle. If the process isn't rational, ignore it. But what is ignored is nevertheless experienced. The experience is political and politics is never wholly rational. Science is captive to politics, a tool of political process.

The fantasy hidden in the scientific method is the fantasy of purity, a spiritual fantasy. The goal is to expand the laboratory until it includes the whole territory, and thus eliminate the unconscious. The method is only efficascious when the reality principle dominates the pleasure principle, that is when the human experience of irrational desire is successfully repressed. Once a people have successfully repressed themselves, they seek to impose that repression on the whole human body, to give all those others the gift of successful repression, the gifts of science, democracy, and capitalism.

But can it actually be realized? Will a human ever be at home in reality?