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The unconscious is the crux of Freud’s work: anyone who claims to employ psychoanalytic methods, either in therapy, art criticism, theorizing about gender and sexuality, and in other areas, must have a grasp of it; conversely, one finds that critics of Freud are usually critical of the unconscious. It is not difficult to see why it arouses fierce opposition, for it challenges many of our common-sense assumptions about the way life is and the way human beings operate.
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Horrocks, R., Campling, J. (2001). The Unconscious. In: Campling, J. (eds) Freud Revisited. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333985441_4
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