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The unconscious mind: Is the unconscious real?

The unconscious mind: Is the unconscious real?

Update: 2025-09-091
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The unconscious has become a well-known feature of our human lived experience since Freud. We often refer to unwanted impulses, suppressed thoughts, unconscious desires, and the like.

But what IS the unconscious? Is it just an easy excuse for our behaviour? Or is it a necessary piece of what it means to be human?

Join our diverse and rich panel as they discuss, and disagree, over this question: Josh Cohen is a literature professor and psychoanalyst, Barbara Tversky is a professor of psychology, and Edward Harcourt is a philosopher.


What do you think? Can the unconscious explain things? Email us at podcast@iai.tv with your thoughts or questions on the episode!


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The unconscious mind: Is the unconscious real?

The unconscious mind: Is the unconscious real?