THE UNCONSCIOUS - BANALITY, OR DARING, BUT UNPROVEN PHANTOM? Cover Image

PODSVJESTICA - BANALNOST ILI DRSKI, NEDOKAZANI FANTOM?
THE UNCONSCIOUS - BANALITY, OR DARING, BUT UNPROVEN PHANTOM?

Author(s): Hrvoje Lorković
Subject(s): Psychology
Published by: Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar
Keywords: unconscious; misplaced concreteness;

Summary/Abstract: The author finds that his concepts were caricatured by his partner in the dispute on the unconscious, Štulhofer. The unconscious cannot be set equal to confusion, and a substitution of Freud's notions for those of the author ends in a "fallacy of misplaced concreteness". The examples proposed by the author before cannot at the same time be sensationalist and bana!. Banal they are, in the measure of the banality of everyday phenomena (a hoary example: not seeing the beam in ons's eye). At the collective level, this corresponds to nationalism. It is hardly necessary to prove its existence scientifically , and it is senseless to try to present it as a strategy in a thoroughly rational game.

  • Issue Year: 4/1995
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 127-130
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Croatian