A nuclear cell constitutes a stable structure within the instability of a biosphere without a nucleus. According to Lynn Margulis, the nuclear cell originates with a union of two independent cells, a spirochete and a protist. Jonah enters the whale and stays there till death do them part. From the material of independence is contructed a structure of interdependence, a symbiotic organization, a marriage, and in time, a family.

Human experience is not fully confined to symbiotic organization. It is not just ego -super-ego, but rather, id - ego - super-ego. There is a portion of human experience that escapes the organization and that moreover seems to undermine, or unorganize that organization. Eros is the god of symbiotic organization, while the god of of the underground is Thanatos. The erotic union of the nucleus and the cell arises like an island from the sea of manyness. The human experience does not orginate with the division of some primordial one, but rather in the union of two in the midst of the many.

On the final page of Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud refers to the relationship of Eros/Thanatos as a struggle between immortal adversaries. It is not clear to me that, except from within the confines of the symbiotic stucture, or, from some point-of-view, that the relationship is a struggle. The struggle seems confined to the organization. The erotic union is the union of opposites; a polar relationship. There is no polartiy in that portion of the human body that remains ununionized. Waking human consciousness is a struggle; maintaining a nuclear identity is a struggle. The tendency is toward the many, toward the unconscious.

To be done with Oedipus is to be done with the relationship between radiation and gravity. The family relationship is a nuclear relationship; genital organization is nuclear organization. The volume within which I sit and tap out these words is the product of forces in tension and so the person who fancies that his tapping is the source of the words.

The biosphere of Earth is composed of two different types of cells: there are cells with nuclei and cells without nuclei. The living biological body of Earth is a body composed of two, and only two, different cell structures. There are then two, and only two, possible relationships possible within the biosphere of planet Earth: There is a relationship between cells and a relationship between a nucleus and a cell. From my point of view, here and now, it is this difference that makes the difference between conscious and unconscious forms of thought.

The human body is a body within a body; the whole body is the biosphere. This awareness is what is manifesting itself in our collective experience. The human experience is an experience within an experience; the other that lies just beyond the borders of the immune system is alive and it is experience. The death of the nuclear organization is not the death of the whole body; the cells without a nucleus live on, oblivious to the tragedy, oblivious to the extinction of the species, oblivious to the lost family values, oblivious to castration.

Gential organization is nuclear organization; to live without genitals is to live without a nucleus, to not experience the separation of the body into two parts. The nuclear organization is alienated from the unnuclear body; it lives a life of its own. From the perspective of the nuclear organization, the body is the nuclear organization, and all of the body that lies beyond the nuclear organization is alien to the body. The immune system protects the people from the aliens.

The unconscious body is the unnuclear body, Lynn Margulis' Microcosm. The Oedipal complex is the conscious body, the nuclear organization, the time/space continuum. I am this complex, this organism , this person, but my experience includes the unconscious experience and as I approach death I begin to see myself as the "little man in the boat", navigating the alien waters, and my boat is leaking.