There is an ‘unconscious,’ but it may well be conscious
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There Is an ‘Unconscious,’ but It May Well Be Conscious
Depth psychology finds empirical validation today in a variety of observations that suggest the presence of causally effective mental processes outside conscious experience. I submit that this is due to misinterpretation of the observations: the subset of consciousness called "meta-consciousness" in the literature is often mistaken for consciousness proper, thereby artificially creating space f...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Europe’s Journal of Psychology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1841-0413
DOI: 10.5964/ejop.v13i3.1388