Ask Mark 1.15 - Is our "mind" the only mind that exists in our brain?
Professor Mark Solms of the University of Cape Town (UCT) answers a question (see below) posed to him on UCT's free online course "What is a Mind?", hosted by FutureLearn. Enrol for the course here [ Ссылка ]
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Question: When you read some of the psychoanalytic texts (especially Freud), it seems that our unconscious is somehow working for itself! I think some of our unconscious actions are so much separated from us, the unconscious somehow thinks for itself, has feelings for itself. All the things that exist in our unconscious have come from our conscious feelings and thoughts but when they're in the unconscious, they don't seem to be ours anymore...at least not exclusively belonging to us. So the questions are: is our mind the only mind that exists in our brain? And is our unconscious a part of our mind, or is it another mind?
