Word: huxleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Huxley, in the second of seven lectures on "What a Piece of Work Is Man," contrasted the positions of Freud and F.W.H. Myers. The latter, he said, dealt with the positive, creative side of the unconscious, while Freud, having a medical background, was concerned more with disease and the negative subconscious...
Opening with a discussion of the "dynamic unconscious," Aldous Huxley ranged over a wide variety of topics before an overflow audience at M.I.T.'s Kresge Hall last night...
...idea of "possession" persisted in Western thought down to the 19th century, Huxley noted. At that time it was replaced by the concept of a "dynamic subconscious," which motivated an individual from within. But he went on to point out that, in subjective terms, such moments of inspiration actually seem to be visitations from outside...
Also valid, Huxley declared, was the Homeric view of man as essentially multiple rather than unitary...
...addition, Huxley commented, the Old Testament's fusion of the ideas of the mind and the body was intuitively correct. "They knew the meaning of the kidneys. In fact, modern psychology has discovered that viscera plays a very important part in our behavior...