Lecture XLIV (Nr. 0593)
Facs
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[588] But the a became visible as something quite different. It became visible as the structure of destruction, and it became visible both in social reality and in personal reality. In personal reality, it is the great merit of b that it showed us that there are structures in the totality of us, including our unconscious, which we cannot simply break by good will. The rediscovery of the demonic was the death-blow against the loose talk about the ''man of good will,'' which was still so strong twenty years ago, and always connected with the nice term ''IF ONLY''--namely ''if only we, the men of good will, went [i.e., got?] together!'' The discovery of the c is the discovery of a structure transcending every individual good will. It is the structure which is present in the individual psychological reality, as a neurotic or psychotic structure of a demonic character, and everybody knows about that that if it is there, you cannot overcome it by good will. This would save you too much money from the psychoanalyst... but you canNOT--it would make you like d, WHO ONLY can do it, actually. Another discovery was a SOCIAL structure. Here we must pay tribute to the analysis of the social schizophrenia, or neurosis, which was connected with the later stages of bourgeois capitalism. This analysis ALSO doesn’t say what e propagandists always did, later on, as all propagandists always do, namely distort f as the basis of his propaganda. He [Marx] never said that there are the evil capitalists and we must kill them--this was what he called utopian socialism. This is still in the structure of ''if-only''--''if only the 10,000 bankers would disappear, then the world would be safe for g!'' Now the same thing like that is deep, deep under the level