The body of educated discourse seems to be dominated by the cult of technology, the worship of technique, the worship of mechanics. Whatever can be located "outside" myembodiedself is subject to mechanical action, it is affected by what I do to it. The "outside" world is subject to mechanical control; mechanical man suffers fantasies of controlling him/herself. A purely mechanical person can put the reality principle to good use. A purely mechanical body is at home in a real world. But the fly in ointment, the ghost in the machine lies "inside" myembodiedself.

The unconscious is not subject to technology. The techniques applied to the world outside myembodiedself, extend only outward, they can realize the concept but not the fantasy. Mechanical man suffers no disease and fantasic man suffers no cure. Mechanical man, like montheistic man is an abstraction, an ideal; the human body is fantastic.