Consciousness Is Just a Feeling
With help from Freud, neuropsychologist Mark Solms locates consciousness in choice.
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With help from Freud, neuropsychologist Mark Solms locates consciousness in choice.
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Book World: Brain research shows Freud actually got a few things right Jess Keiser, The Washington Post March 1, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness By Mark Solms - - - In October 1895, the most mysterious mechanisms of the mind suddenly clicked into place for Sigmund Freud. The Viennese psychoanalyst reported his discovery in a breathless letter to his colleague and confidant, Wilhelm Fliess. After "an industrious night," he wrote, "the barriers suddenly lifted, the veils dropped, and everything became transparent - from the details of the n...
Mark Solms explains that subconscious desires are, in fact, key to our mental lives.
I feel therefore I am ... In this fascinating study, a neuropsychologist argues that the mystery of consciousness centres on emotions