The “Subliminal” versus the “subconscious” in the American Acceptance of Psychoanalysis, 1906–1910

✍ Scribed by Robert Charles Powell

• Book ID: 102679798
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 927 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-5061
• DOI: 10.1002/1520-6696(197904)15:2<155::aid-jhbs2300150207>3.0.co;2-k

✦ Synopsis

Insofar as Frederic W. H. Myers' conceptions of the "subliminal" were spread by the Boston-based "Emmanuel movement" for medically supervised religious psychotherapy (fl. 1906-1910), the movement probably did more to help than to hinder American acceptance of Freudian ideas. Certainly, many academic psychologists' conceptions of the "unconscious" and "subconscious" were a hindrance.