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Duration | 16 hours |
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Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Intermediate |
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Know Thyself - The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge: The Unconscious at Coursera Course details
- A challenging but fascinating topic on the way to achieving self-knowledge is the unconscious. For well over a century, psychologists, philosophers, and many others have posited a level of mentality that is not immediately open to introspection; some would even say that certain unconscious elements cannot be known through introspection. This course will examine some of the most influential ideas about the unconscious starting with the work of Sigmund Freud, and follow the development of theories of the unconscious all the way to present research in experimental psychology. But be warned: some of the things you may learn about your unconscious mind may be surprising, and possibly even disturbing!
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- This course was created by a partnership between The University of Edinburgh and Humility & Conviction and Public Life Project, an engaged research project based at the University of Connecticut and funded by a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation.
Know Thyself - The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge: The Unconscious at Coursera Curriculum
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About this course
Course assessments and exercises
Optional companion book
Meet Sigmund
Freud's Method
Meditative Moment
Inside the Unconscious
Freudian Slips
Dreams
Meditative Moment
Is a Cigar Ever Just a Cigar?
Left Behind?
'The Freudian Unconscious', by M. Green
'Freud as Philosopher', by G. Marino
'What Freudian Slips Really Reveal about Your Mind'
Why You Keep Dreaming You Forgot Your Pants
Freud's Civilisation and its Discontents
Revonsuo's theory of dreaming
Freud's General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
Initial thoughts: Your unconscious
Practice Quiz #1
Creating civilisation anew
Practice Quiz #2
Module 1 Quiz
Freud's legacy
Your mind on the defence
Defense mechanisms
Meditative Moment
A window into the child's mind
Introjecting, projecting, and gaslighting
Meditative Moment
The best defence
Summary
Anna Freud and child psychoanalysis
More on Projection
A story of gaslighting
'Homophobic? Maybe You?re Gay'
Is catharsis really a thing?
Empirical study of reaction-formation and other defense mechanisms
5 Signs that you're dealing with a passive-aggressive person
Object-Relations Theory
Initial thoughts: "In denial"
Practice Quiz 1
Practice Quiz 2
Witnessing defence mechanisms
Module 2 Quiz
The Adaptive Unconscious
Strangers to Ourselves
Proprioception and other automatic marvels
A snowball on top of the iceberg?
Meditative Moment
Tests for the adaptive unconscious
The psychological immune system
Implicit bias
Durability bias
Meditative Moment
Conscious will
Decision making
'The Adaptive Unconscious' by M. Green
BBC documentary on Ian Waterman
'We don't know our own strength'
'Consciousness, introspection, and the adaptive unconscious'
Take the Implicit Association Text
The Implicit Association Test Challenged
Miswanting (you probably do it, too)
Initial Thoughts
Practice Quiz #1
Your personal spin doctor
Practice Quiz #2
Module 3 Quiz
Rationality and Emotions
Practical and theoretical rationality
The Ghastly Ordeal of Phineas Gage
Meditative Moment
Knows, but does not feel
Primary and secondary emotions
Somatic markers
How would that make you feel?
Somatic markers and the SEUT
Meditative Moment
Somatic markers gone awry
Descartes' errors?
Bear cub videos!
More about Phineas Gage
'Somatic markers: how your body makes decisions'
Alexithymia: life without emotions
Damasio on the somatic marker hypothesis
Addiction and Somatic Markers
Cold War Kids
Initial Thoughts
Practice Quiz #1
Practice Quiz 2
A SEUT just for you
Module 4 Quiz
Share what you've learned by editing the Wikipedia entry on self-knowledge!
A brief How-To
The Examined Life
Losing Oneself
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