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How many Freudians does it take to change a light bulb? Two. One to change the bulb, and one to hold the penis...I mean ladder! Although Sigmund Freud isn't exactly famous for his sense of humor, he actually liked jokes--in fact, he wrote a book about them...
In their time--the early decades of the 20th century--Freud's ideas radically and irrevocably changed the way we think about who we are. He both explained the human mind and made it more mysterious. One of Freud's key insights was to divide the mind into the conscious...
Not only did Beck reject Freud's idea of the unconscious self, but he also abandoned the formal reserve of the classic Freudian analyst. Freud believed the analyst should be as neutral and silent as possible. That way, Freud theorized, the patient can project personalities from his or her past...
The correct answer, most often, is that it's impossible to know--in large part because we're precisely the wrong people to ask. Timothy Wilson, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and author of Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious, believes that there are fixed...
But isn't the first commandment of modern life to keep tabs on the state of one's own head, a running box score of syndromes and neuroses? If so, then Wilson's research says, Good luck! For him, the unconscious mind is designed to be inaccessible so that its...