By concentrating on the unconscious processes driving evolutionary mechanisms, evolutionary psychology has neglected the role of consciousness in generating human adaptations. The authors argue that there exist several “Darwinian algorithms” that are grounded in a novel representational system. Among such adaptations are informationretention homicide, the killing of others who are believed to p...

1900 was a remarkable year for science. Several ground-breaking events took place, in physics, biology and psychology. Planck introduced the quantum concept, the work of Mendel was rediscovered, and Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams. These events heralded the emergence of completely new areas of inquiry, all of which greatly affected the intellectual landscape of the 20 centu...

1900 was a remarkable year for science. Several ground-breaking events took place, in physics, biology and psychology. Planck introduced the quantum concept, the work of Mendel was rediscovered, and Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams. These events heralded the emergence of completely new areas of inquiry, all of which greatly affected the intellectual landscape of the 20 centu...

This study explores the bell’s attributes as a representation of wholeness, analyzed through lens analytical psychology. Encompassing its production, religious significance, and literary references, our aim is to uncover profound meaning behind bell. The transformative journey parallels internal struggles individuals grappling with emerging energies while bringing unconscious thoughts into awar...

As the original proponent of psychoanalytic theory, Freud summarized method self-analysis through long-term analysis and research, explored causes psychological barriers. On this basis, gradually developed theory made great contributions to field therapy. Today, psychoanalysis has a history more than 100 years. Its is not rigid but been developing changing. Psychoanalysis, as kind deep psycholo...

Bermúdez (2005) problem” the question of clarifying how typical subpersonal explanations in cognitive sciences, whatever is their specific form, are related to folk psychology. In this opinion article we will approach the interface problem from a specific angle, i.e., the relationship between consciousness and the unconscious as it has taken shape within cognitive sciences. Our starting point i...

This article provides a meta-theoretical framework, which can be applied to hypnosis, based on relational (intersubjective) psychoanalysis. The relationship between hypnosis and psychoanalysis is reviewed by describing three splits: (a) psychoanalysis split off from brain science; (b) psychoanalysis split off from hypnosis; and (c) splits within psychoanalysis itself. Reintegrations of these th...

The Greek notion of archetype was adopted and popularized in the context of the analytical psychology of Carl Gustav Jung. Marshall McLuhan used the concept archetype as a formal perspective rather than the content of an alleged “collective unconscious”. In his book From Cliché to Archetype, the idea of archetype is presented as the ground where individual action is the figure. This article, de...

Could a computer be programmed to make moral judgments about cases of intentional harm and unreasonable risk that match those judgments people already make intuitively? If the human moral sense is an unconscious computational mechanism of some sort, as many cognitive scientists have suggested, then the answer should be yes. So too if the search for reflective equilibrium is a sound enterprise, ...