The Unconscious
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The Unconscious Is Not a Thing, Right?
The self is not taken, in this kind of philosophy to be a thing. So it can't be a thing with parts, because it's not a thing at all,. I see is ye, existentialists conceive of the self as, we might call it a project. And the self is always existing in relation to its environment. But even if we really think about ourselves as bodies from an existential perspective, the body is not a thing in space. It's rather a perspective on the world, and that perspective a potentiality. Even if this perspective isn't ultimately a substance or a thing. Paradoxically, its unity is in the fact that it's nothing i see.
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