Tag: Unconscious

These types of errors in cognition are more common than they seem. Failed acts are errors in behavior and cognition, including memory or spoken and written language, which according to the classic approaches of psychoanalysis provide information about the unconscious processes of the person who commits them. In this article we will describe what parapraxias

What do these concepts that Sigmund Freud developed consist of? If there is something that characterizes the psychoanalysis developed by Sigmund Freud, it is the emphasis that it places on the psychological processes that theoretically occur unconsciously and direct our way of acting, thinking and feeling.  Psychoanalysis was born as an attempt to understand human

Differences between “the unconscious” and the modern unconscious. Scientists and a large part of philosophers have traditionally  considered that human behavior is governed by conscious thought. The belief that we are capable of knowing all the important data about our environment and our body and that we decide how to behave according to this information

Sometimes self-delusion can be a way to temporarily protect your self-esteem. Lying is one of our higher capacities developed by evolution. In a way, it helps us survive in certain situations. Thus, self-deception has two functions: in the first place, it allows to deceive others in a better way (since nobody lies better than someone

The Lüscher Color Test is a projective test. Let’s see what it is and why it is criticized. The Lüscher Test is a projective evaluation technique that starts from relating the preference or rejection of different colors with the expression of specific psychological states. It is a widely used test in different areas and has

A literary selection of interesting essays written by the father of humanistic psychoanalysis. There is a wide variety of psychoanalytic theories. From Freudian psychoanalysis to divergent currents such as Adler’s individual psychology or Carl Jung’s deep, numerous authors have studied the human psyche from the postulates that originate the psychodynamic approach. One of the thinkers