Browsing by Subject "psychoanalysis"

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    What is a Mind Week 1 - What are you if not your mind?
    (2015-08-15) Solms, Mark
    In this video, Professor Mark Solms explores the central question of the course: What is a mind? He discusses the different disciplines, from neurosciences to the Humanities, which have asked this question in different ways, and how they each provide different perspectives on the central question. He unpacks the question in detail and, in doing so, presents further questions which he aims to address in videos that follow. This is video 2 in Week 1 of the What is a Mind MOOC.
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    Wishful thinking and the unconscious: A reply to Gouws
    (2005) Galgut, E
    This paper argues against the view that the Freudian unconscious can be understood as an extension of ordinary belief-desire psychology. The paper argues that Freud’s picture of the mind challenges the paradigm of folk psychology, as it is understood by much contemporary philosophy of psychology and cognitive science. The dynamic unconscious postulated by psychoanalysis operates according to rules and principles that are distinct in kind from those rules that organise rational and conscious thought. Psychoanalysis offers us a radical reconception of our ordinary way of thinking about our own minds.