Myth of the unconscious: Freud on endopsychic perception
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences July 28, 2026 Joona Taipale
The Freudian concept of the unconscious is generally presented in terms of a region of the mind that is inaccessible to consciousness. Against this background, classical phenomenologists insisted that, be it latent dream-thoughts or repressed wishes, the mind can disguise the inappropriate content and repress the unwanted only if it somehow “knows” what it thereby represses and disguises. What...