Mind, Consciousness, the Unconscious
Robert W. Rieber, Jeffrey Wollock
The Collected Works of L. S. Vygotsky 1997 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-5893-4_9 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Keywords | Integral process Mental life Mental phenomenon Nervous process Blind alley |
| Key points | Argues that mind, consciousness, and the unconscious are primarily methodological issues, not just psychological topics, and that they concern the principles of forming psychological science itself, echoing Lipps's view that the subconscious is the problem of psychology. |
Abstract
The three words given in the title of our essay—mind, consciousness, the unconscious— not only stand for three central and fundamental psychological issues. They are to a much greater extent methodological issues, i.e., issues about principles of the formation of psychological science itself. This was superbly expressed by Lipps^2 [1897, p. 146] in his well-known definition of the problem of the subconscious which says that the subconscious is not so much a psychological problem but the problem of psychology. [1]