Unconscious - Are there such things as unconscious ideas?

Author: Franz Brentano

Title: Psychology from an Empirical Point of View

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Pages: | Contents | Psychology as a Science | Inner Consciousness |

Introduction

Franz Brentano (1838-1917) was a German philosopher and psychologist whose seminars Sigmund Freud attended while a student at the University of Vienna. Brentano is best known for his introduction of the concept of intentionality, or the relationship between mental acts and the external world, to contemporary philosophy in books such as Psychology from an Empirical Point of View (1874). In these two extracts, he takes issue with the assumptions of the psychiatrist Henry Maudsley and others that thinking is based on unconscious processes.

Extract I 'Psychology as a Science' (pages 56-59)

Extract II 'Inner Consciousness' (pages 112-117)

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