Por boa parte do tempo, fazemos escolhas com base em instâncias não plenamente conscientes. Claro, decisões fundamentadas em estratégias de raciocínio formal são possíveis, mas elas sempre devem ser cotejadas com a memória de eventos passados para a formulação de soluções voltadas à obtenção dos resultados que se desejam. Especialmente em situações de incerteza, sistemas como esses são extremamente úteis para agirmos com perícia e rapidez. De fato, é bem mais “econômico” valer-se de determinados sinais que analisar algumas situações em todos os seus detalhes.READ MORE
An inexplicable and surprising happiness
Surely the exceptional nature of consciousness has never been more effectively evoked than in Proust’s recollections of madeleines. The echo of a far-off sensation generates in Marcel a stunning sensorial kaleidoscope. Fragments of experience, relegated to the archives of his memory, are brought back to life. Mnemosyne does not merely rescue Marcel from a sense of guilt, from anxieties and the contingency of the present. The ecstatic recollection provides a release from the extreme struggle between life and death. It does away with the filter between past and present.READ MORE
A constantly changing chimera
More than a century ago psychoanalysis set neurology and psychiatry an unprecedented challenge by revealing that the effects of the unconscious are more potent than those of consciousness, and that unconscious drives are constantly trying to surface in conscious life.READ MORE
The uneasy bond with things
As a rule we do not give any thought to how objects appear to our consciousness. Nor to how conscious acts appear to our reflection. Objects never emerge from their silence. READ MORE