I would like to characterize my work as the representation of some conscious and
unconscious thoughts which mingle together and thus a spiritual power force me to play with colour and give them shape.
Not exact matches
His satirical fiction sounds a last - hour alarm to awaken us from our spiritual somnolence, from the
unconscious despair
which thinks all is well when in fact we may be lost and damned.
When we follow Whitehead in
thinking of prehensions of noncontiguous occasions — mediated or not — then the number of physical feelings of
which I am blankly
unconscious is staggering.
The split between rational and mythic discourse
which has characterized our recent cultural history is very dangerous for it impoverishes both modes of
thought.13 It is one of the possible benefits of the current new appreciation of the meaning and function of myth that we may be able to rescue it from the realm of
unconscious fantasy where it always continues to operate, often in dark and devious ways, and restore it once again to its creative role in human consciousness.
Does god make it explicitly, unambiguously clear
which of the person's
thoughts or
which of the things that person hears or sees are coming from him or
which of these things are just the result of the
unconscious dynamics of the person's brain?
I believe that the demonic force emanating from our collective
unconscious, created by everyone nurturing violent, destructive negative
thoughts,
which manifested to me is the same evil force that possessed all these senseless killers.
I believe that I overcame this demonic force that manifested to me,
which emanated from our collective
unconscious, all destructive
thought energies coalescing all together from all of humanity
which sought to manifest and I happened to be its outlet, because I was not and I am not mentally impaired.
In an article on «The Impact of Pastoral Psychology on Theological
Thought,» Tillich emphasizes this point: «Intellectual and moral preaching fails to reach those levels of the personal life
which can, however, be opened by authentic symbols — symbols
which themselves have roots in the
unconscious depths of individuals and groups.»
For a rough picture of the world has emerged in
which thought, both conscious and
unconscious, is an intimate interplay of only more or less focused and engaged acts of minding that result (mirabile dictu!)
Without the sphere of
unconscious and lifeless chunks of matter delineated by dualism such a methodological ideal (
which animates current efforts especially in biology to find the physico - chemical «secret» of life) could hardly have taken hold in modern scientific
thought.
We can trace the problems of describing LSD as consciousness - expanding to the Cartesian tradition,
which conceives consciousness (and its modern partner, the
unconscious) as a substance that contains our
thoughts, perceptions, and feelings.
The hypnotist introduces new ideas,
which are absorbed by your
unconscious mind and become part of your
thinking.
If there is a concluding
thought it is that by becoming conscious of the
unconscious process by
which we «thin - slice» we can become better at making snap decisions - a useful skill for all of us, but an essential one in some professions, such as those that require the carrying of a gun!
Philip Yim Kwong Cheng of the Australian Catholic University theorized in a 2010 article in the Journal of Behavioral Finance that
unconscious thought,
which meditation is intended to facilitate, might help in limiting overconfidence, a trait
which is often found among money managers and
which is documented to lead to poor financial decisions.
Central to Freud's
thinking is the idea «of the primacy of the
unconscious mind in mental life,» so that all subjective reality was based on the play of basic drives and instincts, through
which the outside world was perceived.
From his signature «blackboard» paintings (
which are oil on canvas) to the more representational landscape paintings in this exhibition, Fisher constructs constellations of ideas,
thoughts, and images much like the disjointed nature of the
unconscious and that of memory.
The book's title, The Dream Colony: A Life in Art (2017), is borrowed from a phrase Hopps encountered while doing a stint at a
think tank and describes the region of the
unconscious mind in
which artists dwell.
Key examples from the artist's most iconic neon series will be on view, including elements from Kosuth's renowned «Freud» series (1981 - 1989), in
which the artist puts the psychoanalyst's texts regarding
unconscious functioning meaningfully into play using wall pieces and installations, and from his acclaimed «Wittgenstein» series (1989 - 1993),
which illustrate the fervent influence of the philosopher on Kosuth's foundation of
thinking, and belief that art should ask questions about itself, as a language engaged in the production of meaning.
Many of these movements encouraged the idea of
unconscious painting,
which was all about the artist allowing his artistic expression to flow freely from within without really giving it (conscious)
thought.
More broadly, Krasner's calligraphic paintings revealed the artist's exploration of symbols and sign systems; she explained, «I
thought of [my
unconscious messages] as a kind of crazy writing of my own, sent by me to I don't know who,
which I can't read, and I'm not so anxious to read.»
Whether the development led to positive or negative patterns of
thought and belief, Freud held that that
which truly drives human behavior is buried deep within the human mind, in what he termed the
unconscious mind.
Reflecting on triggers (our own
thoughts and feelings — in a gentle way) will eventually help you understand the true source of your trigger,
which are
unconscious seeds based on conditioning.
Main et al. (1985) went beyond the behavioral perspective by introducing a representational framework, in
which IWMs are considered to be «a set of conscious and / or
unconscious rules,» organizing attachment - related memories, emotions and
thought processes.