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Strangers to Ourselves
Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious
Taschenbuch von Timothy D. Wilson
Sprache: Englisch

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"Know thyself," a precept as old as Socrates, is still good advice. But is introspection the best path to self-knowledge? What are we trying to discover, anyway? In an eye-opening tour of the unconscious, as contemporary psychological science has redefined it, Timothy D. Wilson introduces us to a hidden mental world of judgments, feelings, and motives that introspection may never show us.

This is not your psychoanalyst's unconscious. The adaptive unconscious that empirical psychology has revealed, and that Wilson describes, is much more than a repository of primitive drives and conflict-ridden memories. It is a set of pervasive, sophisticated mental processes that size up our worlds, set goals, and initiate action, all while we are consciously thinking about something else.

If we don't know ourselves--our potentials, feelings, or motives--it is most often, Wilson tells us, because we have developed a plausible story about ourselves that is out of touch with our adaptive unconscious. Citing evidence that too much introspection can actually do damage, Wilson makes the case for better ways of discovering our unconscious selves. If you want to know who you are or what you feel or what you're like, Wilson advises, pay attention to what you actually do and what other people think about you. Showing us an unconscious more powerful than Freud's, and even more pervasive in our daily life, "Strangers to Ourselves" marks a revolution in how we know ourselves.

"Know thyself," a precept as old as Socrates, is still good advice. But is introspection the best path to self-knowledge? What are we trying to discover, anyway? In an eye-opening tour of the unconscious, as contemporary psychological science has redefined it, Timothy D. Wilson introduces us to a hidden mental world of judgments, feelings, and motives that introspection may never show us.

This is not your psychoanalyst's unconscious. The adaptive unconscious that empirical psychology has revealed, and that Wilson describes, is much more than a repository of primitive drives and conflict-ridden memories. It is a set of pervasive, sophisticated mental processes that size up our worlds, set goals, and initiate action, all while we are consciously thinking about something else.

If we don't know ourselves--our potentials, feelings, or motives--it is most often, Wilson tells us, because we have developed a plausible story about ourselves that is out of touch with our adaptive unconscious. Citing evidence that too much introspection can actually do damage, Wilson makes the case for better ways of discovering our unconscious selves. If you want to know who you are or what you feel or what you're like, Wilson advises, pay attention to what you actually do and what other people think about you. Showing us an unconscious more powerful than Freud's, and even more pervasive in our daily life, "Strangers to Ourselves" marks a revolution in how we know ourselves.

Über den Autor
Timothy D. Wilson
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Genre: Importe, Psychologie
Produktart: Ratgeber
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780674013827
ISBN-10: 0674013824
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wilson, Timothy D.
Hersteller: Harvard University Press
Maße: 202 x 130 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Timothy D. Wilson
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.05.2004
Gewicht: 0,252 kg
Artikel-ID: 102502105
Über den Autor
Timothy D. Wilson
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Genre: Importe, Psychologie
Produktart: Ratgeber
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780674013827
ISBN-10: 0674013824
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wilson, Timothy D.
Hersteller: Harvard University Press
Maße: 202 x 130 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Timothy D. Wilson
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.05.2004
Gewicht: 0,252 kg
Artikel-ID: 102502105
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