The unconscious is like Alice Werenge and the language is like some hoopla head that comes into the gym. He said facts does the unconscious only get facts from us? I guess meaning language us or does it have the same access to our sin, sorry,. At some point the mind must gramatize facts and convert them to narrative. The facts of the world do not for the most part come in narrative form. We have to do that.
The Summer of Cormac McCarthy continues – this time we dive into his one piece of non-fiction, the short essay “The Kekulé Problem.” How does our unconscious mind solve problems that conscious deliberation can’t crack? Why does it often work elliptically, in code, rather than giving us the answer directly in language? Is McCarthy right that the unconscious doesn’t trust language because it’s such a newcomer to the human brain?
Plus we select the finalists for our listener selected episode – thanks to our beloved patrons for all their terrific suggestions!
"The Kekulé Problem" by Cormac McCarthy
Pinker & Bloom 1990
Dijksterhuis & Strick 2016
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