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Unconscious Wisdom

Unconscious Wisdom

By Merkur, Dan

Published by State University of New York Press

English 186 pages 2001
Estimated reading time: 3 h 25 min
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Contra both Freud and Jung, argues that the unconscious is not exclusively irrational. In a detailed engagement with the psychoanalytic theories of dreams, conscience, empathy, and creativity, Dan Merkur argues that the superego is an unconscious reasoning process, dedicated to the representation of the loved object. The superego's access to the repressed and devotion of time to single topics make it both more knowledgeable and more intelligent than the conscious ego. This is the final installment in Merkur's three-volume exploration of the psychoanalysis of religious experiences-volumes one and two are The Ecstatic Imagination: Psychedelic Experiences and the Psychoanalysis of Self-Actualization and Mystical Moments and Unitive Thinking, also published by SUNY Press.

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