This chapter introduces briefly some ideas presented by Guy Claxton, the author of The Wayward Mind: An Intimate History of the Unconscious . It suggests that people&s;s explanations for the oddities have changed over time from the "outward" to the "inward" stories. Compulsive behaviour, epileptic seizure, ADHD, Tourette&s;s syndrome, psychosomatic disorder, and panic disorder are contemporary...
In psychoanalysis, it is commonly thought that ideas (desires, fears, etc.) may be repressed, and that they can be made conscious. In this article, we shall apply cognitive viewpoints and assert that ideas do not exist in the unconscious as 'ready made', and thus repressed ideas cannot be 'brought' into consciousness. We suggest that the contents of consciousness are formed by processes on four...