Strangers to Ourselves Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious

Afbeeldingen

Artikel vergelijken

  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9780674013827
  • 15 mei 2004
  • 272 pagina's
Alle productspecificaties

Samenvatting

“Know thyself,” a precept as old as Socrates, is still good advice. But is introspection the best path to self-knowledge? Wilson makes the case for better ways of discovering our unconscious selves. If you want to know who you are, he advises, pay attention to what you actually do and what other people think about you.



"Know thyself," a precept as old as Socrates, is still good advice. But is introspection the best path to self-knowledge? What are we trying to discover, anyway? In an eye-opening tour of the unconscious, as contemporary psychological science has redefined it, Timothy D. Wilson introduces us to a hidden mental world of judgments, feelings, and motives that introspection may never show us.

This is not your psychoanalyst's unconscious. The adaptive unconscious that empirical psychology has revealed, and that Wilson describes, is much more than a repository of primitive drives and conflict-ridden memories. It is a set of pervasive, sophisticated mental processes that size up our worlds, set goals, and initiate action, all while we are consciously thinking about something else.

If we don't know ourselves—our potentials, feelings, or motives—it is most often, Wilson tells us, because we have developed a plausible story about ourselves that is out of touch with our adaptive unconscious. Citing evidence that too much introspection can actually do damage, Wilson makes the case for better ways of discovering our unconscious selves. If you want to know who you are or what you feel or what you're like, Wilson advises, pay attention to what you actually do and what other people think about you. Showing us an unconscious more powerful than Freud's, and even more pervasive in our daily life, Strangers to Ourselves marks a revolution in how we know ourselves.

Productspecificaties

Inhoud

Taal
en
Bindwijze
Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
15 mei 2004
Aantal pagina's
272
Illustraties
Nee

Betrokkenen

Hoofdauteur
Timothy D. Wilson
Hoofduitgeverij
The Belknap Press

Overige kenmerken

Editie
New edition
Extra groot lettertype
Nee
Product breedte
134 mm
Product hoogte
25 mm
Product lengte
205 mm
Studieboek
Ja
Verpakking breedte
141 mm
Verpakking hoogte
22 mm
Verpakking lengte
207 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht
253 g

EAN

EAN
9780674013827

Je vindt dit artikel in

Taal
Engels
Boek, ebook of luisterboek?
Boek
Studieboek of algemeen
Algemene boeken
Beschikbaarheid
Leverbaar
Nog geen reviews

Kies gewenste uitvoering

Prijsinformatie en bestellen

De prijs van dit product is 24 euro en 99 cent.
Op voorraad
Select
Voor 23:59 besteld, morgen in huis
Verkoop door bol
In winkelwagen
  • Prijs inclusief verzendkosten, verstuurd door bol
  • Ophalen bij een bol afhaalpunt mogelijk
  • 30 dagen bedenktijd en gratis retourneren
  • Dag en nacht klantenservice
Bezorgopties
  • Vandaag nog in huis (bestel ma-vr voor 12:00, bezorging tussen 17:00 en 22:00)
  • Doordeweeks ook ’s avonds in huis
  • Ook zondag in huis (bestel voor za 23:59)

Vaak samen gekocht

  • Redirect
    15,99
    Verkoop door bol
  • Tegen de zon in kijken
    12,50
    Verkoop door bol
  • Thinking Fast & Slow
    11,99
    Verkoop door bol
  • Redirect
    14,49
    Verkoop door bol
  • Ons feilbare denken
    15,00
    Verkoop door bol

Lijst met gekozen artikelen om te vergelijken

Vergelijk artikelen