Nick Shackleton-Jones 'Learning & Cognition: why Plato and Descartes got it all wrong'
The New Abnormal
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I'm a Player, Not a Worker, Is It?
Froyd played such a fascinating role in the history of psychology because he did us a service. His idea that people's rationalizations for why they do things might be very different from their emotional motives became quite popular. It was stamped out aggressively by behaviorists and people like skinner, who basically said, all that there is is all that you can see. But now, thankfully, thank god, effectively, it's being resurrected by people like daniel canaman with his work which is more scientific in nature but essentially reinstates the idea of an unconscious mechanism.
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