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Of psychological depths

18 Sunday Mar 2018

Posted by Amod Lele in Buddhism, Consciousness, Psychology, Therapy, Unconscious Mind

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Amos Tversky, Carl Jung, Daniel Kahneman, Kurt Danziger, Patrick O'Donnell, René Descartes, Sigmund Freud

In my previous post about the way the mind’s automatic processes get things wrong (and how that point is important to Buddhists), I turned to the experiments of Daniel Kahneman (and Amos Tversky) on false cognition. I claimed that the kind of automaticity they describe is a better explanation of what Freud would have called the unconscious mind, citing the quip that “the unconscious is unconscious not because it’s repressed but because it’s not conscious.”

Some excellent comments from Patrick O’Donnell took me to task for this claim. Patrick is pointing to the importance of the distinction between cognitivist approaches like Kahneman’s on one hand, and a very different kind of modern Western psychology on the other. Continue reading →

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