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It examines why people experience seemingly irrational phenomena—dreams, voices, premonitions, hunches, and uncanny intuitions—and argues the mind behaves as though it has its own agency. Rather than treating the unconscious as a single entity, the book untangles diverse metaphors and proposes a renewed “map” connecting invisible foundations to everyday behavior.","An intoxicating journey...lit brilliantly by  \nsparkling insights'  \nPAUL BROKS  \nDo you ever feel inexplicably elated or  \ndepressed?Do you ever have a powerful dream,hear a voice in your head,recall a distantmemory,experience a premonition,lose a trainof thought or make a novel connection-allseemingly out of the blue?Do subtler intimationssuch as inklings,hunches and aesthetic feelingsturn your stomach or make your hair standon end with excitement?All these varieties ofthe uncanny reveal us to be less in control ofour thoughts than we might like.In fact,manyaspects of human experience defy reason,andthe mind often seems to have a mind ofits own.  \nWhere the ancient world invented gods and epictales to make sense of the aspects of experiencethat normal life could not explain,the medievalworld believed in the real existence of demonsand angels.Where Aphrodite was once thoughtto make people love-struck by whispering intheir ears,and creativity was deemed to be thegift of a Muse,today they are explained by thelinking of two circuits in the brain.  \nThis stunningly readable book brilliantly chartshistory's many different ways of explaining theunconscious mind,from ancient descriptions ofthe‘underworld'to theories of contemporaryneuroscience.But whatever metaphors the story-telling impulse attaches to the phenomena ofthe unconscious,it is not really a single entity,but a jumbled collection of notions in urgentneed of untangling.Guy Claxton's beautifullywritten book does just this,taking in intellectualand cultural history,literature and spirituality,from the myths and beliefs of ancient Egypt andHomer's Greece to modern Polynesia.The different strands of the unconscioushave never before been tied together,butin The Wayward Mind the map is redrawn toacknowledge the constant influence of itsinvisible foundations-of unconscious as muchas conscious thought-on everyday humanbehaviour.  \nhttps://archive.org/details/waywardmindintim0000clax  \n# The Wayward Mind\n\nThe Wayward Mind  \n# An Intimate Historyof the Unconscious\n\nGUY CLAXTON  \nLITTLE,BROWN  \nA Little,Brown Book  \nFirst published in Great Britain in 2005 by Little,Brown  \nCopyright ◎2005 Guy Claxton  \nThe moral right of the author has been asserted.  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced,stored in a retrieval system,or transmitted,in any form or by anymeans,without the prior permission in writing of the publisher,nor beotherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that inwhich it is published and without a similar condition including thiscondition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.  \nA CIP catalogue record for this bookis available from the British Library.  \nISBN0316724513  \nEvery effort has been made to trace copyright holders in all thecopyright material in this book.The publisher regrets any oversight andwill be pleased to rectify any omission in future editions.Quotationfrom ‘The Silent Pool'by Harold Monro by permission ofGerald Duckworth &Co.Ltd.  \nTypeset in Garamond by M RulesPrinted and bound in Great Britainby Clays Ltd,St Ives plc  \nLittle,BrownAn imprint ofTime Warner Book Group UKBrettenham HouseLancaster PlaceLondon WC2E7ENwww.twbg.co.uk  \nContents  \nPreface  \nvii  \n1 On Making Up Your Mind:What the Unconscious Is For2 The Supernatural:Magical Landscapes and InvisiblePuppeteers273 The Invention of the Soul:Glimmerings ofthe Unconscious574 The Dumb Menial:The Unconscious Refined,Banishedand Bouncing Back895 The 'Inner Africa':Romanticism,Mysticism and Dreams 1206 The Beast in the Basement1557 The Intelligent Incubator:Cognition and Creativity1908 Putting Humpty Together Again:Neural Networks tothe Rescue2339 The Devil Incarnate:Madness and the Frontal Lobes27110 The Sublime and the Subliminal30411 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