"the unconscious, being unknown, is bound to coincide with itself everywhere:

lacking all recognizable qualities, no unconscious content can be distinguished from any other.

This is not a logical sophistry but a very real phenomenon of great practical importance,

for it affects the problems of identity and identification in social life,

which are based on the collective (and indiscriminable) nature of unconscious contents."

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"These, once they have taken possession of certain individuals,

irresistibly draw them together by mutual attraction and

knit them into smaller or larger groups

which may easily swell into an avalanche."

we have witnessed this phenomenon in MAGA and now in the Biden/Kamala/Walz tsunami.