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Mistici e poeti, filosofi e scienziati hanno esplorato nei secoli l'oscuro padrone delle nostre vite: l'inconscio. Per primo ne scrisse sant'Agostino; poi fu oggetto di una disputa tra Leibniz e Locke; quindi vennero le esperienze di Coleridge e Baudelaire con l'oppio e i primi esperimenti con l'ipnosi. All'inizio del Novecento Freud lo mise al centro di ogni attività psichica, ma sul finire del secolo diventò cruciale anche per i modelli della mente proposti dalle neuroscienze cognitive. L'inconscio appartiene a ogni concezione dell'essere umano e abita in forme infinite il nostro immaginario. Ha ispirato l'arte, la letteratura, la musica, il cinema: da Breton a Bacon, da Bataille a Burroughs, da Stravinsky ai Judas Priest, da Hitchcock a Kubrick. Non solo. La ricerca di modelli della mente non dominati dalla coscienza segna la nascita dell'informatica e le neuroscienze contemporeanee. Come insegna Damasio, il nostro cervello conserva una quantità infinita di informazioni e continua a processarle inconsciamente. La tesi di Frank Tallis è che, pur da prospettive diverse, psicoanalisti, cognitivisti e neuro-scienziati sono uniti nel sostenere che eventi che accadono al di fuori della nostra consapevolezza (compresi gli auto-inganni, le prime impressioni e le influenze subliminali) sono tra le principali determinanti del comportamento umano. Tallis si spinge ancora più in là, sostenendo che una certa idea di inconscio può unificare tradizione occidentale e sensibilità orientale, l'illusorietà della coscienza smascherata dalle neuroscienze e l'irrealtà del Sé predicata dal buddhismo. "Breve storia dell'inconscio" attraversa secoli di storia facendo vivere al lettore l'avventura dell'uomo che impara a conoscere la sua «mente nascosta». Tallis racconta il sorprendente viaggio delle nostre convinzioni: se i contemporanei di Freud non potevano concepire che gran parte della vita umana fosse condizionata da qualcosa di nascosto, oggi fatichiamo a credere il contrario. Perché, come scriveva lo psicoanalista viennese, «lo psichico è inconscio, e l'inconscio è il vero psichico».
First publish date: 2002
Authors: Frank Tallis
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