A challenging but fascinating topic on the way to achieving self-knowledge is the unconscious. For well over a century, psychologists, philosophers, and many others have posited a level of mentality that is not immediately open to introspection; some would even say that certain unconscious elements cannot be known through introspection. This course will examine some of the most influential ideas about the unconscious starting with the work of Sigmund Freud, and follow the development of theories of the unconscious all the way to present research in experimental psychology. But be warned: some of the things you may learn about your unconscious mind may be surprising, and possibly even disturbing!
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This course was created by a partnership between The University of Edinburgh and Humility & Conviction and Public Life Project, an engaged research project based at the University of Connecticut and funded by a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation.
Know Thyself - The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge: The Unconscious
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Université d'Édimbourg
À propos de ce cours
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Ce que vous allez apprendre
Gain an appreciation of the relation of methods of learning about oneself that do not depend on introspection.
Become familiar with contemporary research in experimental social psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience into the emotions and the unconscious.
Understand the role of affect in decision making, and self-deception.
Be able to identify and analyse unconscious mechanisms motivating own and other people's actions.
Programme du cours : ce que vous apprendrez dans ce cours
Semaine
120 minutes pour terminer
Getting started
Here you will get an overview of this course, including the topics covered and questions addressed, as well as what you need complete the course.
3 lectures
3 lectures
About this course5 min
Course assessments and exercises5 min
Optional companion book
4 heures pour terminer
The Freudian Unconscious
In this first week of the course we will acquaint ourselves with the ideas of Sigmund Freud, who is probably the most famous advocate and practitioner of psychoanalysis. Shockingly for his time, Freud proposed that many facts of human behavior, including the mistakes we make, what we dream, as well as much behavior that seems on the surface to be irrational, are to be explained as being due to forces in our minds of which we are not conscious. We will look at Freud's reasons for this hypothesis and consider whether those reasons are compelling.
9 vidéos (Total 59 min), 7 lectures, 5 quiz
9 vidéos
Meet Sigmund5 min
Freud's Method6 min
Meditative Moment3 min
Inside the Unconscious9 min
Freudian Slips9 min
Dreams8 min
Meditative Moment2 min
Is a Cigar Ever Just a Cigar?5 min
Left Behind?8 min
7 lectures
'The Freudian Unconscious', by M. Green5 min
'Freud as Philosopher', by G. Marino5 min
'What Freudian Slips Really Reveal about Your Mind'5 min
Why You Keep Dreaming You Forgot Your Pants5 min
Freud's Civilisation and its Discontents5 min
Revonsuo's theory of dreaming5 min
Freud's General Introduction to Psychoanalysis5 min
5 exercices pour s'entraîner
Initial thoughts: Your unconscious10 min
Practice Quiz #18 min
Creating civilisation anew10 min
Practice Quiz #25 min
Module 1 Quiz10 min
Semaine
23 heures pour terminer
Freud's legacy
In this second week of the course we explore some developments in psychoanalytic theory that were dominant in the middle of the 20th Century. Focusing on the work of Anna Freud (Sigmund Freud's youngest daughter) and Melanie Klein, we will consider some psychoanalytic themes that emerged after Sigmund's death. Both of A. Freud and Klein were intensely interested in the psychological development of children, and we will learn about some of their ideas on this topic. Also, we will consider some phenomena that have potential resonance for our daily lives such as transference, reaction-formation, and what is now termed "gaslighting".
8 vidéos (Total 40 min), 8 lectures, 5 quiz
8 vidéos
Defense mechanisms8 min
Meditative Moment2 min
A window into the child's mind3 min
Introjecting, projecting, and gaslighting9 min
Meditative Moment1 min
The best defence6 min
Summary2 min
8 lectures
Anna Freud and child psychoanalysis5 min
More on Projection5 min
A story of gaslighting5 min
'Homophobic? Maybe You’re Gay'10 min
Is catharsis really a thing?5 min
Empirical study of reaction-formation and other defense mechanisms5 min
5 Signs that you're dealing with a passive-aggressive person5 min
Object-Relations Theory5 min
5 exercices pour s'entraîner
Initial thoughts: "In denial"10 min
Practice Quiz 15 min
Practice Quiz 25 min
Witnessing defence mechanisms10 min
Module 2 Quiz10 min
Semaine
34 heures pour terminer
The Adaptive Unconscious
Much of the last three decades of research related to the unconscious mind has focused on its automatic character, and draws attention to the vast extent of cognitive and affective processing that occur with little or no conscious effort. Such processing is thought to have been evolutionarily adaptive in the past, as well as to simplify our daily lives even now. But these processes can also be hard to modify if they are not working for us, and may account for certain biases that seem to perpetuate some current forms of injustice in many of the world's societies. In this third week of the course we will learn about the "adaptive unconscious", paying attention both to the benefits it confers and the challenges it raises.
11 vidéos (Total 64 min), 7 lectures, 5 quiz
11 vidéos
Proprioception and other automatic marvels13 min
A snowball on top of the iceberg?3 min
Meditative Moment2 min
Tests for the adaptive unconscious5 min
The psychological immune system8 min
Implicit bias6 min
Durability bias5 min
Meditative Moment1 min
Conscious will5 min
Decision making5 min
7 lectures
'The Adaptive Unconscious' by M. Green5 min
BBC documentary on Ian Waterman5 min
'We don't know our own strength'5 min
'Consciousness, introspection, and the adaptive unconscious'5 min
Take the Implicit Association Text20 min
The Implicit Association Test Challenged5 min
Miswanting (you probably do it, too)10 min
5 exercices pour s'entraîner
Initial Thoughts10 min
Practice Quiz #15 min
Your personal spin doctor15 min
Practice Quiz #2
Module 3 Quiz10 min
Semaine
43 heures pour terminer
Rationality and Emotions
In this final module we will consider the relation between emotions and rationality. These are popularly thought to be at odds with one another, and many people hold that to be rational, one must keep emotions at bay. With a focus on the work of neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, we will consider reasons for thinking that one important kind of rationality could not function properly without emotions.
11 vidéos (Total 72 min), 7 lectures, 5 quiz
11 vidéos
The Ghastly Ordeal of Phineas Gage6 min
Meditative Moment1 min
Knows, but does not feel6 min
Primary and secondary emotions11 min
Somatic markers5 min
How would that make you feel?8 min
Somatic markers and the SEUT5 min
Meditative Moment2 min
Somatic markers gone awry8 min
Descartes' errors?5 min
7 lectures
Bear cub videos!10 min
More about Phineas Gage12 min
'Somatic markers: how your body makes decisions'5 min
Alexithymia: life without emotions5 min
Damasio on the somatic marker hypothesis5 min
Addiction and Somatic Markers5 min
Cold War Kids10 min
5 exercices pour s'entraîner
Initial Thoughts10 min
Practice Quiz #15 min
Practice Quiz 2
A SEUT just for you20 min
Module 4 Quiz12 min
2 heures pour terminer
Final assessment
Apply your knowledge of the unconscious!
4 lectures, 1 quiz
4 lectures
Share what you've learned by editing the Wikipedia entry on self-knowledge!5 min
A brief How-To5 min
The Examined Life
Losing Oneself
Enseignant
Mitchell Green
Professor of PhilosophyÀ propos de Université d'Édimbourg
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