Miscellanies

Miscellanies
Author: Samuel Warren
Publisher:
Total Pages: 501
Release: 1855
Genre: Legal essays
ISBN:

Thomas De Quincey and the Cognitive Unconscious

Thomas De Quincey and the Cognitive Unconscious
Author: Markus Iseli
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2015-08-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137501081

This book examines Thomas De Quincey's notion of the unconscious in the light of modern cognitive science and nineteenth-century science. It challenges Freudian theories as the default methodology in order to understand De Quincey's oeuvre and the unconscious in literature more generally.