The unconscious : the fundamentals of human personality, normal and abnormal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prince, Morton, 1854-1929, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Subconsciousness.

Psychology, Pathological.

Unconscious, Psychology.

Psychology.

Medical Subjects:

Unconscious, Psychology.

Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

APA PsycBOOKS.

Place of Publication:

New York : Macmillan, 1915.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

"The present volume consists of selected lectures (with the exception of four) from courses on abnormal psychology delivered at the Tufts College Medical School (1908-10) and later at the University of California (1910). These again were based on a series of papers on the Unconscious published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology (1908-9) of which they are elaborations. Since the lectures were delivered a large amount of new material has been incorporated and the subject matter considered in more detail and more exhaustively than was practical before student bodies. The four additional lectures (X, XI, XII and XIII) appeared in abbreviated form in the same Journal (Oct., Nov., 1912) under the title "The Meaning of Ideas as Determined by Unconscious Settings." The lecture form has been retained, offering as it does many advantages where, in the exposition of a difficult subject, much that is elemental needs to be stated. As the subconscious and its processes are fundamentals both in the structure of personality and in the many mechanisms through which personality, normal and abnormal, finds expression, the first eight lectures are devoted to its exposition. I have divided the subconscious into two classes, namely (1) the unconscious, or neural dispositions and processes, and (2) the coconscious, or actual subconscious ideas which do not enter the content of conscious awareness. In these lectures I have also endeavored (Lectures XIV-XVI) to develop the phenomena of the emotional innate dispositions which I conceive play one of the most fundamental parts in human personality and in determining mental and physiological behavior"--Pref. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved)

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2006. Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement. s2006 dcunns.

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