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Thomas De Quincey and the Cognitive Unconscious

By:Markus Iseli
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137501073
eText ISBN:9781137501080
Edition:0
Copyright:2015
Format:Reflowable

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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.