The Discovery of the Unconscious
The person popularly attributed with the discovery of the unconscious is of course Sigmund Freud. It's exploration however dates back to the beginnings of philosophy and indeed to conscious thought itself. The question of who discovered the unconscious is really based on who systematically explored this idea of a 'second mind' and really began to consign our emotions and actions to its workings. The major difficulty with the discovery of the unconscious is that without an ascribed name we would not be able to categorize all the things we believe to be it'…
