It can be argued that the shaman is actually the repressed self of the society, articulating some possibilities latent in a culture, possibilities which the ‘sane’, the ‘mature’ and the ‘rational’ cannot self-consciously express or seriously pursue.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "It can be argued that the shaman is actually the repressed self of the society, articulating some possibilities latent in a culture, possibilities which the ‘sane’, the ‘mature’ and the ‘rational’ cannot self-consciously express or seriously pursue." in the context of "Ashis Nandy. (1989). Shamans, Savages and the Wilderness: On the Audibility of Dissent and the Future of civilizations. Alternatives, XIV, p. 266." to mean that wisdom is timeless.