ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author demonstrates that the unconscious is constructed in order to hide from the individual his own immoral activity. Sigmund Freud has a mental map of "the unconscious" as a pre-existing locus of the mind into which memories, wishes, and thoughts are relegated. W. R. D. Fairbairn re-cast Freud's libido theory in a way that was simple, yet revolutionary. Fairbairn said that libido is object-seeking whereas Freud had said that libido sought to re-establish equilibrium. In order to explain psychological data amorally, Freud had to squeeze all of human motivation within the parameters of the constancy theory of which the man in the prison cell is an exemplar. In the Three Essays on Sexuality Freud had given a place to the object of libido. He said that the sexual drive had a source, an aim, and an object.
