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The Unconscious Before Freud

Name: The Unconscious Before Freud
Author: Lancelot Law Whyte

Lancelot Law Whyte

The Unconscious before Freud: A history of the evolution of human awareness is a 1960 book about the history of ideas about the unconscious mind by the historian of science Lancelot Law Whyte. The work has been compared to the psychiatrist Henri Ellenberger's The Discovery of the Unconscious and has been considered a classic. Whyte has been credited with showing how the predecessors of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, established the concept of the unconscious.

“The idea of the unconscious mental processes was, in many of its aspects, conceivable around 1700, topical around 1800, and became effective around 1900, thanks to the imaginative efforts of a large number of individuals of varied interests in many lands.”

Lancelot Law Whyte book The Unconscious Before Freud

The Unconscious Before Freud (1967)