Freud's adoption of the spatial metaphor of a subterranean "unconscious" at the end of the nineteenth century codified an imaginable space of antimeaning in which socially unrealizable goals could nevertheless still convey power.
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[…] Lifton suggests that any 'action' became 'part of the general absurdity, the antimeaning' (Home from the War, p. 38). For a longer discussion of the effect of this antimeaning on the psyche of the returning soldier see pp. 38–40.
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