SOURCE: “The Unconscious of Representation (‘Death and the Compass’),” in Variaciones Borges, J. L. Borges Center for Studies & Documentation. January, 1996, pp. 101-12.
In the following essay, using Borges's story “Death and the Compass,” Ostergard formulates a definition of the unconscious as the difference between the reality of a situation and the representation of that situation.
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