Title: Excellent look at the "adaptive unconscious"
Review: From Freud to Wilson, our understanding of the part of our mind that is inaccessible to our conscious has evolved. Once believing that our unconscious was a separate self, repressing sexual urges and manifesting desires through maladaptive ways, Wilson (through research might I add), discusses what the role of the adaptive unconscious is in maintaining our cognitive functioning.My only complaint is that he uses WAY too many literary examples to illustrate his points. Although I believe this is an attempt to make the book more readable from a layman's point of view, it comes at the cost of making the theories presented seem unfounded and even over-expressing the conclusions that we can draw from research. But this book is recommended for novice psychologists, but may frustrate seasoned veterans.
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