Human vs Human

Most of human mind and feeling cannot be deciphered conclusively. Freud's use of an iceberg to show that human are only conscious of the tip of human mind is an excellent example of it. The short story, "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick, excellently indicates how human mind, focusing on memory, is not simple enough to be completely unraveled by human themselves. The conflicts of this story include man vs technology and man vs society, however, this is also a matter of man vs supernatural, or man vs man: man's knowledge and intelligence verses the mind and the soul of man-the unconscious which is completely impossible to thoroughly understand. "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" starts with the line, "He awoke-and wanted Mars" (Bohner and Grant 355). We later understand that he had actually been to Mars before but his memory of it had been impaired. Did he want "to go" to Mars? Did he want his memory back? Did he want a false memory of having been to Mars? Did he want to live in Mars? Did he want to capture Mars? Douglas Quail interprets this feeling as wanting to go there...to see Mars before he dies (Bohner and Grant 355). Despite the fact that he desperately want to go there, he doesn't have the money. Therefore, he decides to go to an agency offering a false memory of "having been" to Mars (Bohner and Grant 357). During the process, he retains his lost memory. Later, he does the same thing with the memory of meeting species from outer space and having a contract between them. The technology in this story tries to take control of Quail as he gets confused with the various memories he has. This story plays a lot of tricks in our minds and gives us a lot of thinking. I believe it is basically saying, even though technology is advancing and it is good, it also have faults. An example will be our efficiency of working as a result of technological advancement contradicted by the sleep deprived society. Also Dick suggests us not to trifle with the supernatural part of mankind, for it will bring confusion and perhaps destruction.