Who’s Driving?: A Fragment on Freud, Ballard and Accelerationism

This was something necessarily culled from a work-in-progress that I liked but which is too much of a tangent to be worth keeping. Clipped and posted here for posterity.

Explaining his theory of the unconscious mind in his 1923 work, The Ego and the Id, Sigmund Freud deploys an analogy of a man on horseback to describe the relationship between his titular arenas of the mind.

The functional importance of the ego is manifested, he writes, in the fact that normally control over the approaches...