Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis by DT Suzuki, Erich Fromm and Richard De Martino

"...the average person, while he thinks he is awake, is actually half asleep. By 'half asleep' I mean that his contact with reality is a very partial one; most of what he believes to be reality (outside or inside of himself) is a set of fictions which his mind constructs. He is aware of reality only to the degree to which his social functioning makes it necessary. He is aware of his fellowmen  inasmuch as he needs to cooperate with them; he is aware of  material and social reality inasmuch as he needs to be aware of it in order to manipulate it. He is aware of reality to the extent to which the goal of survival makes such awareness necessary.... The average person's consciousness is 'false consciousness', consisting of fictions and illusion, while precisely what he is not aware of is reality. .." Erich Fromm

Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis, by DT Suzuki, Erich Fromm and Richard De Martino, Grove Press, 1960.