RHETOR 104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Unconsciousness, Dialectic, Reductionism
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Hegel makes few references to the ucs but did not ignore the notion. He talks of the unconscious process of intelligence as a nightlike abyss. This ontology of the abyss promises to offer to significant advances in the psychodynamic thought, which may pave the way of a new movement in psychoanalysis called process psychology or. 3 ways to understand and interpreter a thinker (a) examine historical precursors that influenced his thinking (b) examine what he actually says (c) examine philosophical ideas that grew out of his thought. Broader understanding of hegel if he interpret him through freud. Ucs as pivotal concept in comprehension of geist. Claim: h anticipated that psychoanalysis would be make more intelligible: geist: translated as spirit or mind, but these do not capture the full meaning go the term. A person"s geist indicates the complex integration of his/her intellectual capacity, insight, depth and personal maturity, implies respect of superiority.
