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The Wayward Mind: An Intimate History of the Unconscious by Professor Guy Claxton (Paperback, 2006)

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The unconscious has had a long and chequered history. For at least the last 4,000 years, societies have concocted comforting fables in the face of the recurrent puzzles of human existence - death, dreaming, madness, possession, inspiration - that invariably rely on some notion of the unconscious. Supernatural 'fairy stories' need some internal proxy or contact point through which the influence of demons and spirits can flow. And without such gods and forces, some psychological machinery is needed to take over their work. But what IS the unconscious Is it 'God's viceroy', the soul Is it the locked ward of Freudian desire Is the subliminal mind the source of the sublime emotions of the Romantics Is is the mental microchip of cognitive science Or is it simply the brain