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While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious.

— Marshall McLuhan Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)

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Human perception is literally incarnation.

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