Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The truth is that our unconscious minds are active, purposeful, and independent. Hidden they may be, but their effects are anything but, for they play a critical role in shaping the way our conscious minds experience and respond to the world.
It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives.
As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.
Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.
The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
I don't know about you, but I find it exhilarating to see how vague psychological notions evaporate and give rise to a physical, mechanistic understanding of the mind, even if it's the mind of the fly.
It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.