Unconscious Function

Famous quotes containing the words unconscious and/or function:

“The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

“Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. It is a total denial of the creative function of difference in our lives. Difference must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.”
—Audre Lorde (1934–1992)