The Unconscious: A Cultural History from Hippocrates to Philip K. Dick and Beyond

A highly original first anthology on the cultural history of the unconscious that is destined to become definitive.

“Know thyself”—the injunction that was once inscribed upon the Temple of Apollo—became a touchstone for classical and modern philosophers before being embraced as the endgame of psychoanalysis by Freud and his followers. The conceptual baggage that Freud took on his armchair journey into the unconscious mind is well known—and so, too, is the more recent science on implicit memo...