Description: "Guides the general reader through a fresh and expansive panorama of extracted highlights from the social and scientific history of the unconscious"-- Provided by publisher.
Review Quotes: ENDORSEMENTS
"A treasury of fascinating and astutely selected texts that brings clarity and focus to a vast and unwieldy subject. Antonio Melechi has distilled a lifetime of multidisciplinary research into an admirably concise volume that sparks fresh ideas and insights at every turn."--Mike Jay, author of Psychonauts and High Society "The unconscious always surprises; it appears in the most curious of places and in the strangest of guises. Bringing together a vast range of materials from voodoo rites to contemporary neuroscience, Melechi's astonishing compendium is the first to properly acknowledge the startling history of the unconscious."
--Rhodri Hayward, Reader in Medical History, Queen Mary University of London "Packed with insight and ideas, Antonio Melechi's marvelous anthology adds up to a multifaceted intellectual biography of that elusive entity, the unconscious. Going far beyond its subject's well-known Freudian incarnation, it features 2,000 years of material from the classical world to the New Age, ranging from heavy-duty philosophers to lesser-known pioneers such as Frances Power Cobbe and her 'unconscious cerebration, ' along with more unexpected figures such as Henri Michaux, Philip K. Dick, and even George Orwell."
--Phil Baker, author of Austin Osman Spare and City of the Beast "A fascinating tour of our sometimes futile and always contested efforts to demystify the unconscious--from ancient Greece to modern neuroscience, via Nietzsche, Freud, and more."
--Christian Jarrett, editor, Psyche magazine; author of Be Who You Want