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In reply to the discussion: Misogyny, sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, etc. and unconscious internalization. [View all]siligut
(12,272 posts)54. You used to do the same thing yourself?
Do you mean you used to blame your unconscious mind for things you felt but didn't like. While the unconscious mind is no secret laboratory, it does contain what we learned growing up. It doesn't "think", or differentiate good from bad, but it does influence feelings.
The unconscious mind (or the unconscious) consists of the processes in the mind that occur automatically and are not available to introspection, and include thought processes, memory, affect, and motivation.[1] Even though these processes exist well under the surface of conscious awareness they are theorized to exert an impact on behavior. The term was coined by the 18th-century German romantic philosopher Friedrich Schelling and later introduced into English by the poet and essayist Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The concept was developed and popularized by the Austrian neurologist and psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Empirical evidence suggests that unconscious phenomena include repressed feelings, automatic skills, subliminal perceptions, thoughts, habits, and automatic reactions,[1] and possibly also complexes, hidden phobias and desires. In psychoanalytic theory, unconscious processes are understood to be expressed in dreams in a symbolical form, as well as in slips of the tongue and jokes. Thus the unconscious mind can be seen as the source of dreams and automatic thoughts (those that appear without any apparent cause), the repository of forgotten memories (that may still be accessible to consciousness at some later time), and the locus of implicit knowledge (the things that we have learned so well that we do them without thinking).
It has been argued that consciousness is influenced by other parts of the mind. These include unconsciousness as a personal habit, being unaware, and intuition. Terms related to semi-consciousness include: awakening, implicit memory, subliminal messages, trances, hypnagogia, and hypnosis. While sleep, sleep walking, dreaming, delirium, and comas may signal the presence of unconscious processes, these processes are not the unconscious mind itself, but rather symptoms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscious_mind
It has been argued that consciousness is influenced by other parts of the mind. These include unconsciousness as a personal habit, being unaware, and intuition. Terms related to semi-consciousness include: awakening, implicit memory, subliminal messages, trances, hypnagogia, and hypnosis. While sleep, sleep walking, dreaming, delirium, and comas may signal the presence of unconscious processes, these processes are not the unconscious mind itself, but rather symptoms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscious_mind
Yes this is from Wiki, but it is actually what is generally accepted by people who study the mind.
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Misogyny, sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, etc. and unconscious internalization. [View all]
redqueen
Jun 2013
OP
here and in this conversation I lump them together as one outputs to the other
galileoreloaded
Jun 2013
#59
Based on the fact that it is 2013, and we are only now seeing a noticeable pushback
redqueen
Jun 2013
#8
All true, yet none of that negates the importance of striving to improve society
redqueen
Jun 2013
#66
No, I didn't. I didn't rec KW's "you might be a racist" thread for reasons which should be clear.
redqueen
Jun 2013
#24
You are assuming that refers to ANY and ALL criticism. That is your mistake. nt
redqueen
Jun 2013
#36
These things are all real. But now is a terrible time to try and discuss them seriously.
dawg
Jun 2013
#31
I had wanted to avoid specific incidents but since this keeps coming up I'll just say this.
redqueen
Jun 2013
#42
Thank you so much for this. I wish that people, rather than being so defensive, would try and
Liberal_Stalwart71
Jun 2013
#55