Strangers to Ourselves Wilson Timothy D.
Strangers to Ourselves Wilson Timothy D. "Know thyself," a precept as old as Socrates, is still good advice. What are we trying to discover, anyway? But is introspection the best path to…
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Strangers to Ourselves Wilson Timothy D.
"Know thyself," a precept as old as Socrates, is still good advice. What are we trying to discover, anyway? But is introspection the best path to self-knowledge?
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. In an eye-opening tour of the unconscious, as contemporary psychological science has redefined it, Timothy D. 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