Freud's Myopia - How Adaptive Subconscious Affects Our Lives?

Author: (USA) Timothy D. Wilson
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: Do you understand your subconscious? Is it the subconscious or the conscious that gives you more initiative and quicker responses? To what extent can the subconscious control our behavior? Can people improve their subconscious through training? This book reveals the limitations of Freud's ideas and explains how adaptive subconscious will affect our lives. The development of modern psychology indeed owes a great deal to Freud's courage to explore beyond the narrow corridor of consciousness. However, in experimental psychology, a revolution regarding the nature of the subconscious has taken place, exposing the limitations of Freud's ideas. When he followed experimental psychologist Fechner in saying that consciousness is like the tip of an iceberg floating above the water, he was almost exactly off the mark—perhaps it is no bigger than a snowball on the top of the iceberg.