Unavoidable illusion

Author: (Italian) Piero Palmarini, translated by Ouyang Jiang
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: Many friends have been curious about the content of my new book and keep asking me, "What is this new book about?" I always answer, "About the black hole of our thinking. This book aims to reveal the discovery of a new science of the unconscious. It is not the unconscious or subconscious explored by psychoanalysis, but rather the illusions often hidden in our cognitive realm, and the terrifying thing is that we are completely unaware of them. By studying dreams, our repressed thoughts, our well-known complexes, our slips of the tongue, the way we turn imagined illnesses into real physical diseases, our hopes, our feelings, and the inconsistencies hidden in our feelings, and so on, the material for psychoanalysis is further enriched. On the contrary, the material dealt with in this book comes from economics textbooks, stock exchanges, corporate board meetings, clinical diagnoses, institutions that sway public opinion, and election fluctuations. In fact, this material comes from any time we make "uncertainty" judgments. In short, our examples are almost from everywhere, everyone, and any phenomenon discovered at any time.