Sigmund Freud · Science
Freud’s founding discovery - that most of mental life is <em>unconscious</em>, that the mind is not a unity but a battleground of wishes and defences, and that slips, jokes, dreams, and symptoms are meaningful messages from a hidden self actively kept out of sight.
You learned that Freud made the unconscious dynamic : not merely what we happen not to be thinking, but wishes and memories held down by repression that return in disguise. Explain repression, the ‘return of the repressed,’ and why Freud said nothing in mental life is accidental.
Leads to Arthur Schopenhauer.
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