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Episode 265: Kekulé (Oh Yeah!)

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The Unconscious's Frustration With Language

The unconscious might be a lot smarter than we think. And that it's like language can get in the way. Can I read the lesson? I don't know if you want to. Let's go to the last paragraph. It says, the unconscious seems to know a great deal. What does it know about itself? Does it know that it's going to die? What does it think about that? The fact that it appears to be less than insistent upon our remembering every dream suggests that sometimes it may be working on itself. Is it really so good at solving problems or is it just that it keeps its own counsel about the failures? How does it have this understanding, which we

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