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Analitik Psikolojiye hayat veren Carl Gustav Jung, İsviçreli bir psikolog ve psikiyatristtir. Bu
kuramıyla psikoloji tarihindeki üç büyük şahıstan(diğerleri: Freud ve Adler) biri olmuştur.
Jung’ un bu dev kuramını incelemek oldukça kapsamlı ve büyük uğraş gerektirir. Çünkü
kuramının alanı çok geniştir. Bu çalışmada Jung’ un hayatından edindiği izlerle oluşan
Analitik Psikolojinin ortaya çıkış süreci, kavramlarını, gelişimi, gelişmesine katkı sağlayan
kişi ve kuramlar incelenmiştir.
Anahtar Kelimeler: Analitik Psikoloji, Carl Gustav Jung, Bilinç, Kolektif Bilinçdışı, Kişisel
Bilinçdışı, Psişe, Arketip

- by Kübra Aktaş
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- Archetypes, Carl G. Jung, Unconscious Mind, Analitical Psychology

Most contemporary text books of neurology and of psychology pay little attention to the function of the cerebellum beyond noting it to be an organ of motor control. A historical overview of research on cerebellar function is presented, from pre-Sherrinton suggestions of sensory and motor function, through the post-Sherrinton and dominant 20 th . Century view of "motor" function, to the 21 st . century perspective of "sensorimotor" function. The intrinsic capability of the cerebellum is briefly considered in terms of: its size/complexity/capacity; its information representation/processing characteristics (with "a particular computational function"); its sensory information processing capability; and, its role in sensorimotor regulatory control. It is suggested that the cerebellum can process sensorimotor stimulus information in a statistical (connectionist type) manner and respond to in on the basis of its own learning based sensorimotor representations, albeit at a "level" that does not necessarily involve cerebral "awareness".

- by Eric Parkins
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- Evolutionary Biology, Neuroscience, Psychology, Behavioural Science

According to many criteria, agency, intentionality, responsibility and freedom of decision, require conscious decisions. Freud already assumed that many of our decisions are influenced by dynamically unconscious motives or that we even perform unconscious actions based on completely unconscious considerations. Such actions might not be intentional, and perhaps not even actions in the narrow sense, we would not be responsible for them and freedom of decision would be missing. Recent psychological and neurophysiological research has added to this a number of phenomena (the "new unconscious") in which behavior is completely unconscious or in which the decision or its execution is influenced by unconscious factors: priming, automatic behavior, habitualized behavior, actions based on plain unconscious deliberations, intrusion of information from the dorsal pathway, etc. However, since this makes up the largest part of the behavior which is generally regarded as action, intentionality, yet agency, responsibility and even compatibilist freedom of decision for the largest part of our behavior may be threatened. Such considerations have led to a lively debate, which, however, suffers from generalizations that lump all these unconscious phenomena together. In contrast, the aim of this article is to discuss individual unconscious influences on our behavior separately with respect to what extent they require changes in traditional conceptualizations. The first part (sections 2-4) of the article outlines the "traditions" and their elaborations: the intentional causalist concept of action, an associated empirical theory of action and standard concepts of responsibility and compatibilist freedom of decision, as well as the challenges for them. In the second part (sections 5-9), the aforementioned unconscious influences on our actions (except for automated and habitualized actions, which I discuss elsewhere) are examined: 1. unconscious priming, 2. dynamically unconscious motives, 3. dorsal pathway information influencing conscious decisions, 4. unconsciously altered execution of conscious intentions, and 5. unconscious deliberations and decisions. To what extent do these phenomena C1. require a change in the concept of action, C2. curtail intentionality or agency, C3. responsibility, and C4. freedom? The result is: The curtailments prove to be far less dramatic than they initially appear; they require more watchfulness but no conceptual change.

- by Tamar Frankel
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- Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Unconscious Mind, Deception
- by Deirdre Barrett
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- History, Neuroscience, Media Sociology, Psychology
- by Deirdre Barrett
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- Military History, Political Sociology, Social Movements, Psychology

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- by Deirdre Barrett
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- Philology, Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Applied Psychology

Considering to some eminent literary works, declare a severe relevance between psychoanalysis and writer's method. The Great Gastby, F. Scott Fitzgerald classic twentieth century story of Jay Gatsby's quest for Daisy Buchanan is different from other American Writer's which also describe the corruption along with failure of the American Dream. Psychology is an academic and applied discipline that involves the scientific study of mental functions and behaviors. Psychologists attempt to understand the role of mental functions in individual and social behavior. This study is mainly concerned with the psychological method of writing in the Great Gatsby. Attempt to understand the role of Gatsby's mental functions in individual and social behavior. Practically it is an analysis of wealth, power and lust in some segments of the story. Notifying how mush wealth can help to obtain the power and how much the power can help to obtain the lust. The root of someone's motivations to create an evolution in spited of having an appropriate life situation. And associate the story with psychological points by some psychologist's theories.

- by Dr. Mina Sanahmadi
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- Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Unconscious Mind

A reading of gendered violence, body horror, "hyperreality," and postmodern cinematic nostalgia in Quentin Tarantino's 'Death Proof' through Jean Baudrillard's 'Simulacra and Simulation' and 'America' as well as Gilles Deleuze's "Coldness... more

- by Aaron Anderson
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- Critical Theory, Semiotics, Cultural Studies, Psychoanalysis

The meaning of civilization has changed depending on time and place during history. Current consensus on the definition of civilization is 'an advanced state of human society with developed organizations, government, and technology.' However, establishing civilizations also includes "developed" cultures and social norms. These unwritten rules force 'civilized people' to obey these norms, even if it means erasing a part of their identity. Therefore, when one examines civilizations from the aspect of individuals, it is clearly seen that personalities are suppressed due to the unwritten rules. In Freudian terms, that corresponds to repressing the unconscious.

- by Funda Arslan
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- Sigmund Freud, Civilization, Unconscious Mind, Civilization and its Discontents
- by Deirdre Barrett
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- Creative Writing, Evolutionary Biology, Neuroscience, Social Theory

Recent findings in different areas of psychology and cognitive science have brought the discussion of the unconscious mind back to center stage. However, the unconscious mind worry remains: What renders unconscious phenomena mental? In the present paper, I will suggest a new strategy for answering this question. This strategy rests on the idea that categorizing unconscious phenomena as “mental” should come out as scientifically useful relative to the explanatory goals of unconscious mind research. I will argue that this is the case if by categorizing an unconscious phenomenon as “mental” one picks out explanatorily relevant similarities between that phenomenon and a corresponding paradigmatically mental phenomenon, i.e., a conscious one. Explanatory relevance is spelled out in terms of the mechanistic norms of scientific explanation.

A discussion on what connects photography to the surrealism of the everyday? The topics included in this discussion are what makes the everyday so surreal? furthermore how we see the world in a unique perspective compared to others; Why dreams influence the work of surrealism and where our dreams receive its inspiration from. Additionally, throughout this text the topics covered are, Photographers that link photography to surrealism, and Photographers that use surrealism in their work, within these topics are discussions on their surreal images to which will be analysed and explained on why and how and they have used this style of work.

- by Luke Brennan
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- Semiotics, Psychology, Visual Studies, Art Theory
- by Deirdre Barrett
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- Creative Writing, Neuroscience, Psychology, Abnormal Psychology

- by Dr. Mina Sanahmadi
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- Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Unconscious Mind

An introductory essay to the 3-volume work 'The Philosophy of the Unconscious' ('Die Philosophie des Unbewusstseins') of Eduard von Hartmann. Edouard d'Araille takes a brief survey of von Hartmann's life and thought, in particular the "philosophy of the unconscious" which would make von Hartmann a household name both in Germany and abroad (including in England). This ambitious work extends upon the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer's system (set forth in most detailed fashion within 'The World as Will and Representation') whilst also being inspired by the triad of Post-Kantians F.W.J. von Schelling, J.G. Fichte and G.W.F. Hegel. Hartmann transforms Schopenhauer's concept of the 'Will' into his own, related idea, of the 'Unconscious', forming an interesting bridge between the ideas of one strand German Idealism and Sigmund Freud's psychology of the Sub-Conscious. This essay only provides a brief sketch of von Hartmann's philosophy, but enough so as to appreciate its importance in the evolution of thought. The essay also touches upon the pessimism which was at the heart of von Hartmann's philosophy, which he shared above all with Schopenhauer himself. The essay is followed by a four page Bibliography of von Hartmann's major work (including translations) and reference is also made to some books and article written about him.

- by Edouard d'Araille
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- German Idealism, Psychology of Unconscious, Henri Bergson, Sigmund Freud

In this article we explain the method of conducting 'Loganathan and Sivakumar's Baum Test' (LSBT). We will introduce the specific instructions used in the LSBT test to draw the four trees and also explain the differences between LSBT and the standard Baum Test. In addition, we will highlight the advantages of using the LSBT as an effective projective test. We will also show that the historical ways of being of a person can be captured using LSBT as each tree drawn shows a different stage in a person's life. In addition, the projection into the future of a person can also be captured in LSBT. Thus, through LSBT, a proper psychological history taking of a person can be performed. Finally we will explain how it can benefit the person and how LSBT can contribute to the field of psychology, especially depth psychology.

- by Ari Marappan and +1
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- Unconscious Mind, Depth-Psychology

This is the Complete Publication of the Self-Hypnosis guide 'The Mind Inside' by Dr. Ewald Oersted and Edouard d'Araille. It includes a series of self-hypnosis experiments and guidance in self-hypnotic techniques. The first part looks at the phenomenon of the 'Subconscious' and what makes this aspect of the human mind so special. Part two of the guide explores how we prevent ourselves from accessing our own Subconscious Mind, while the third part shows the reader how to take the self-hypnotic journey deep into their own Subconscious. The fourth and final part of this hypnosis course investigates the numerous directions in which it is possible to pursue exploration one's own Subconscious Mind. It is a very special kind of course and one which the committed reader will benefit from greatly. It is being provided here in its complete form for a limited time only by courtesy of Living Time™ Media International for whom Edouard d'Araille edited/co-authored this volume.

- by Deirdre Barrett
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- Philology, Neuroscience, Psychology, Abnormal Psychology
- by Deirdre Barrett
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- Creative Writing, Neuroscience, Psychology, Abnormal Psychology
- by Kevin Lynch
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- Psychology of Unconscious, Unconscious cognition, Unconscious Mind

The history of the relationship between anthropology and psychoanalysis has been assiduously debated and frequently portrayed as troublesome. In the last decades, the major changes and critical reappraisals occurring in both disciplines have probably favoured their rapprochement (Heald et al 1994: 1). Moreover, the lively engagements between anthropologists and psychoanalysts (Juillerat 1992; Heald and Deluz 1994; Godelier and Hassoun 1996; Devisch and Brodeur 1999; Mimica 2007) have demonstrated that, in spite of their relationship been historically fraught with impasses, anxieties and misconceptions, psychoanalysis and anthropology have shared fundamental questions and parallel explorations on the human condition and on the diversity of its predicaments.

- by Margherita Margiotti
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- Psychoanalysis, Gender Studies, Anthropology, Sexuality

In this work I discuss the relevance of the psychoanalytic concepts of resistance and transference for an understanding of language from a psychoanalytic point of view, in particular how it is that human beings relate to language and whether or not we can conceive of a relation of reference between word and thing from the point of view of Jacques Lacan’s notion of the subject of the unconscious. This investigation takes us through the notion of reference and how it is possible (or not) for language to even refer to anything outside of itself from a psychoanalytic point of view. How does psychoanalysis force us to confront our prejudices about language? How might we understand the status of knowledge differently (and productively) after Lacan, taking into account the concept of the unconscious as “structured like a language”? We are concerned throughout with understanding the unconscious in material terms.

- by Ian McCausland
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- Psychoanalysis, History Of Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, Jacques Lacan
- by Deirdre Barrett
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- Neuroscience, Cultural Studies, Media Sociology, Psychology

A visual field could in a congenitally blind person just lie there-like a hidden pool in a corner of the mind: multicoloured , unchanging, unremarked, perhaps never to come to the attention, forever dormant. This highly unnatural state of affairs is a real possibility, and that it is opens up an allimportant space between consciousness and the visual field, even though the visual field of its nature lies open to consciousness. Brian O'Shaughnessy, Consciousness and the World, p.502 We can begin at once with the peculiar predilection of scientific thinking for mechanical, statistical, and physical explanations that have, as it were, the heart cut out of them…[P]eople ceased trying to penetrate the deep mysteries of nature as they had done through two millennia of religious and philosophical speculation, but were instead satisfied with exploring the surface of nature in a manner that can only be called superficial…the great Galileo Galilei, always the first to be mentioned in this connection, eliminated the question of what were nature's deep intrinsic reasons for abhorring a vacuum and consequently letting a falling body penetrate space after space until it finally comes to rest on solid ground, and settled for something far more common: he simply established how quickly such a body falls, the course it takes, the time it takes, and what is its rate of downward acceleration…However disconcerting it may sound nowadays to speak of someone as inspired by matter-of-factness, believing as we do that we have far too much of it, in Galileo's day the awakening from metaphysics to the hard observation of reality must have been, judging by all sorts of evidence, a veritable orgy and conflagration of matter-of-factness! But should one ask what mankind was thinking when it made this change, the answer is that it did no more than what every sensible child does after trying to walk too soon; it sat down on the ground, contacting the earth with a most dependable if not very noble part of its anatomy, in short, that part on which one sits.

- by Sam Coleman
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- Psychology of Unconscious, Consciousness, Panpsychism, Qualia
- by Deirdre Barrett
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- Neuroscience, Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Applied Psychology

As a phenomenological concept, absorption refers to the ego's capacity to experience the world from a displaced standpoint. The paper traces the emergence and development of this concept in Husserl's and Fink's writings and demonstrates that while Fink conceived of absorption as a class of intuitive representations , Husserl transformed it into a limit phenomenon, whose analysis calls for a new method. A careful study of absorption compels us to rethink fundamental themes in phenomenology: it forces us to broaden our understanding of sensuous intuition, reconceptualize the nature of self-awareness, stretch the limits of intuitive representations , and rethink the portrayal of phenomenology as a metaphysics of presence. The paper demonstrates that absorbed experiences are characterized by a specific form of self-awareness, that they constitute a distinct type of intuitive representations , that a new method is needed to investigate them, and that their analysis leads towards a phenomenology of the unconscious.

- by Saulius Geniusas
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- Phenomenology, Continental Philosophy, Psychology of Unconscious, Eugen Fink

I'm reading Stanislas Dehaene's Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts (2014). Good book, sophisticated but readable. Explores what an unbelievable amount of the brain's activity is unconscious. For instance, after reviewing a bunch of experiments, Dehaene states what should have been obvious all along (although of course it did need to be experimentally confirmed): "in some respects, consciousness is irrelevant to semantics-our brain sometimes performs the same exact operations, all the way up to the meaning level, whether or not we are aware of [the words we have been exposed to, e.g. because they were flashed on a computer screen too briefly for us to consciously notice them]." The brain can unconsciously process word meanings, just as it can unconsciously process the emotional valences of images, etc.

Jon Mills is a prolific author with a penchant for philosophical clarity -a trait we might expect from a practicing psychoanalyst with a PhD in philosophy. In Conundrums, Mills outlines and criticizes recent developments in psychoanalytic theory, developments broadly known as "relational," and submits them to analytical and philosophical critique. Mills" criticisms underline both important developments and potentially problematic theses and practices associated with the relational theories.

- by John White
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- Psychoanalysis, Jungian psychology, Psychology of Unconscious, Sigmund Freud
- by Deirdre Barrett
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- Neuroscience, Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Applied Psychology
- by Deirdre Barrett
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- Neuroscience, Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Applied Psychology

Full document in download. Or broken up as slide-show on HuffPo link below.

- by Deirdre Barrett
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- Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Applied Psychology, Behavioural Science

Esotericism is an extremely oblique opaque hidden science scribed into the texts of the Torah (Old and New Testaments). Most people believe that the Torah represents the five books of Moses; however, Judaism declares that any commentary on the Torah is the Torah. In the very beginning of the Prologue of the ZOHAR i the first topic is THE LILY and this is the most clarified commentary on the Torah's text that I have ever come across; because, the ZOHAR'S commentary (THE LILY) literally outlines the Lily mathematically in the first two verses of Genesis and the first two words in the first day of creation. 'Between the first and second mentions of the word ELOHYM are thirteen (13) words, which symbolizes thirteen (13) petals of a Lily. And between the second and third mention of the word ELOHYM are five (5) words that symbolizes five (5) leaves that surrounds the Lily. This Lily is the cup of benediction that must rest on five (5) fingers.' I have inserted the images of the SHECHINAH ‫,שכינה‬ which has the gematria value of three-hundred and eighty-five (385). The ten magic squares also has the gematria value of three-hundred and eighty-five (385).

- by William John Meegan
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- Unconscious Mind, Magic Squares, Skeleton, Zohar, Kabbalah
- by Deirdre Barrett
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- Philology, Neuroscience, Psychology, Abnormal Psychology

Probably in circumstances of nowadays global integration and new faze of technical change the richness of cultural diversity of Asia-Pacific gives its population the vast opportunity for technical innovations, economic growth, and personal prosperity. From the other hand, such unusually broad cultural diversity contains also powerful threats. Differences in religions, traditions, customs and languages very often become a source of tensions because of misunderstandings and political speculations. However we suppose that the periodic phases of economic activity and stagnation in the Asia-Pacific region do not much depend from traditional and cultural norms but mostly from such phenomenon as cultural change. How and why cultural changes take place? It seems that periodic environmental (climate) changes, technical and transportation revolutions are the main motors for transformations in social structures which in their turn determine the mechanisms and level of cross-cultural activity, integration or isolation.
It is important to notice that besides the cultural diversity, in Asia-Pacific region there is the opposite phenomenon of cultural similarity of Austronesian speaking peoples, in spite of the fact that nowadays they confess different believes and are separated by various nation-states. Nowadays some of them are Christians (in Taiwan, Philippines, East Timor, Papua New Guinea, most of the Pacific Islands, New Zealand, and Madagascar), others are Muslims (Indonesia, Malaysia, southern Thailand, the southern Philippine Islands, and Brunei); some are Hinduists (Bali) and many others still follow their original believes, which include Ancestor Worship, Animism, and Shamanism. Cultural similarity, which those peoples share, could be explained in terms of former cultural unity or regular long time contacts among them in the past. Wide believes diversity among the Austronesian speaking peoples could be explained by their ability to adapt easily to outside influences. What is a reason for such easy adaptation?
We guess the main reason for easy adaptation to outside influences is to get profit of integration. What kind of society is so much orientated to integration? Probably, it is an exchanging society. And it is reasonable to suppose that nowadays Austronesian speaking peoples share the same cultural (not ethnic) ancestry from the unity of peoples who were once integrated by sea nomads and whose life was depended from the sea. Ancient Asia-Pacific sea nomads’ cultural traditions reconstruction is interesting and useful task because it can help to discover mechanisms of easy cultural integration in the region, which took place in the past and probably could be exploited nowadays to relief international and inter-religious tensions in the region.

- by Igor Sitnikov
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- Mythology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Indonesian Studies, Taiwan Studies

Abstract: Foundational Mathematical Categories and Passive Syntheses in Anti-Oedipus.

Key Words: Deleuze, Guattari, Transcendental Empiricism, Bataille, Simondon, Zizek, Lacan, Anamorphic Eventities, Lacanian Registers, Structuralism.

- by Kent Palmer
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- Mathematics, Metaphysics, Ontology, Epistemology
- by Deirdre Barrett
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- Neuroscience, Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Applied Psychology