Know Thyself - The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge: The Unconscious
Intermediate
Online
Free Quick Facts
| Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| English | Self Study | Video and Text Based |
Courses and Certificate Fees
| Fees Informations | Certificate Availability | Certificate Providing Authority |
|---|---|---|
| INR 2436 | yes | Coursera |
The Syllabus
Readings
- About this course
- Course assessments and exercises
- Optional companion book
Videos
- Meet Sigmund
- Freud's Method
- Meditative Moment
- Inside the Unconscious
- Freudian Slips
- Dreams
- Meditative Moment
- Is a Cigar Ever Just a Cigar?
- Left Behind?
Readings
- 'The Freudian Unconscious', by M. Green
- 'Freud as Philosopher', by G. Marino
- 'What Freudian Slips Really Reveal about Your Mind'
- Why You Keep Dreaming You Forgot Your Pants
- Freud's Civilisation and its Discontents
- Revonsuo's theory of dreaming
- Freud's General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
Practice Exercises
- Initial thoughts: Your unconscious
- Practice Quiz #1
- Creating civilisation anew
- Practice Quiz #2
- Module 1 Quiz
Videos
- Your mind on the defence
- Defense mechanisms
- Meditative Moment
- A window into the child's mind
- Introjecting, projecting, and gaslighting
- Meditative Moment
- The best defence
- Summary
Readings
- Anna Freud and child psychoanalysis
- More on Projection
- A story of gaslighting
- 'Homophobic? Maybe You’re Gay'
- Is catharsis really a thing?
- Empirical study of reaction-formation and other defense mechanisms
- 5 Signs that you're dealing with a passive-aggressive person
- Object-Relations Theory
Practice Exercises
- Initial thoughts: "In denial"
- Practice Quiz 1
- Practice Quiz 2
- Witnessing defence mechanisms
- Module 2 Quiz
Videos
- Strangers to Ourselves
- Proprioception and other automatic marvels
- A snowball on top of the iceberg?
- Meditative Moment
- Tests for the adaptive unconscious
- The psychological immune system
- Implicit bias
- Durability bias
- Meditative Moment
- Conscious will
- Decision making
Readings
- 'The Adaptive Unconscious' by M. Green
- BBC documentary on Ian Waterman
- 'We don't know our own strength'
- 'Consciousness, introspection, and the adaptive unconscious'
- Take the Implicit Association Text
- The Implicit Association Test Challenged
- Miswanting (you probably do it, too)
Practice Exercises
- Initial Thoughts
- Practice Quiz #1
- Your personal spin doctor
- Practice Quiz #2
- Module 3 Quiz
Videos
- Practical and theoretical rationality
- The Ghastly Ordeal of Phineas Gage
- Meditative Moment
- Knows, but does not feel
- Primary and secondary emotions
- Somatic markers
- How would that make you feel?
- Somatic markers and the SEUT
- Meditative Moment
- Somatic markers gone awry
- Descartes' errors?
Readings
- Bear cub videos!
- More about Phineas Gage
- 'Somatic markers: how your body makes decisions'
- Alexithymia: life without emotions
- Damasio on the somatic marker hypothesis
- Addiction and Somatic Markers
- Cold War Kids
Practice Exercises
- Initial Thoughts
- Practice Quiz #1
- Practice Quiz 2
- A SEUT just for you
- Module 4 Quiz
Readings
- Share what you've learned by editing the Wikipedia entry on self-knowledge!
- A brief How-To
- The Examined Life
- Losing Oneself