| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 5975 |
| QUOTATION: | Freud thought he was bringing the plague to the U.S.A., but the U.S.A. has victoriously resisted the psychoanalytical frost by real deep freezing, by mental and sexual refrigeration. They have countered the black magic of the Unconscious with the white magic of “doing your own thing,” air conditioning, sterilization, mental frigidity and the cold media of information. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929), French semiologist. Cool Memories, ch. 2 (1987, trans. 1990). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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