Strangers to Ourselves Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious

Name: Strangers to Ourselves Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious
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ISBN: 9780674013827

ISBN-10: 0674013824

ISBN-13: 9780674013827

Edition: 2002

Authors: Timothy D. Wilson

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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…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 5/15/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.27" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Preface



Freud's Genius, Freud's Myopia



The Adaptive Unconscious



Who's in Charge?



Knowing Who We Are



Knowing Why



Knowing How We Feel



Knowing How We Will Feel



Introspection and Self-Narratives



Looking Outward to Know Ourselves



Observing and Changing Our Behavior


Notes


Bibliography


Index