ABSTRACT
John Keene’s chapter is extraordinarily rich in offering us an understanding of unconscious aspects of humans. It shows us the intersection of the unconscious with conscious thinking and, moreover, indicates the unconscious aspects of the individual intersecting with group and social dynamics. It also links more biological factors that are connected with human survival with the intense and painful dependency of a baby on its mother. Climate change issues provoke similar intense feelings of dependency to survive biologically as individuals and as a species. It is important to recognize how those baby-like feelings have a role in powerful cultural and commercial forces, self-seeking interests, and politics.1
