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Chapter 3.Evolution of the Dynamic Unconscious

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The Unconscious in the Psychoanalytic Model of the Mind | Early Investigations of the Conscious Mind | The Unconscious From Descartes to Freud | Unconscious Mental Processes and Contemporary Academic Psychology | Controversy Surrounding the Unconscious: Self-Knowledge and Self-Deception | References

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This chapter explores the concept of the unconscious in greater depth. It explains what it means when we say that the psychoanalytic -unconscious is dynamic. It will review the history of the concept of the unconscious in Western philosophy and compare the concept of the psychoanalytic unconscious to related concepts from neighboring disciplines. In the face of overwhelming evidence, why do so many people deny the existence of the unconscious? Vocabulary introduced in this chapter includes the following: automatic thoughts, behaviorism, cognitive psychology, cognitive unconscious, dynamic, dynamic unconscious, functionalism, introspectionism, mind–body dualism, structuralism, and unconscious.

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