Unconscious pretension in psychology

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Unconscious Goal Activation and the Hijacking of the Executive Function

Unconscious vision in action.

The dorsal visual processing stream has been suggested to be involved with the unconscious processing of visual information for visually guided actions. In this study, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was used to gate input into the dorsal visual processing stream by disrupting primary visual cortex (V1) function. Despite restricting geniculostriate processing contributions in the dorsal...

Unconscious Memory in Disease

Nietzsche's Presence in Freud's Life and Thought on the Origins of a Psychology of Dynamic Unconscious Mental Functioning

Freud's debt to philosophy and philosophers is probably the most disputed, controversial, and ultimately confusing area of the sources he is said to have drawn from in the development of his thought. Conventional wisdom suggests that Freud had little use for philosophy and even despised the few philosophers whom he bothered to read. Freud's dismissive remarks in his 1933 paper “The Question of ...

Unconscious secrets

I am sometimes asked where I find the material that goes into these columns and whether it is difficult to write something new every month. When I started it was easy because I had a large stock of material accumulated over many years during which I did not write columns. And, yes it is becoming increasingly difficult as the stock has dwindled with the passage of time. I am always on the lookou...