McLuhan, Whitehead & Freud

McLuhan's "The Medium is the Message" always struck me as intuitively obvious, and I've always been puzzled by its controversy. The character of an information channel must condition the experience of receiving its content. How could it be otherwise? Only after reading Whitehead'sSymbolism did I see the connection between McLuhan and Freud/Jung. Later other correspondences became apparent:

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Freud/Jung	UNCONSCIOUS	CONSCIOUS
McLuhan	Medium	Message
Whitehead	Causal Efficacy	Presentational Immediacy
Psychology	Sensation	Perception
Bohm	Implicate/Implicit	Explicate/Explicit
Marx	Change in Means of Production	Change in Relationships Among Social Classes

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In his book, "Archetypal Process: Divine and Self in Whitehead, Jung, and Hillman", David Ray Griffin pulled together a good collection of essays on the compatibility of Whiteheadian process philosophy/theology and Jungian archetypal psychology. Technorati Tags: Whitehead Freud McLuhan