Intuition and Consciousness

Bibliographic Data

ID9230337
AuthorsAllan D Rosenblatt (3252 Holiday Court, Suite 205, La Jolla, CA 92037), James T Thickstun (3252 Holiday Court, Suite 205, La Jolla, CA 92037)
Year1994
Volume63
Issue4
Pages696-714
Publication date1994-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Psychoanalytic Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2828 • E-ISSN: 2167-4086
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/21674086.1994.11927433
PMID7846187
OpenAlexW1677037219
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited4

Intuition represents an unconscious cognitive activity, the results of which become conscious at some point. Some recent nonpsychoanalytic explorations of cognition and consciousness are examined to illuminate our understanding of these processes and their relation to the psychoanalytic process. Our thesis is that intuition may be most usefully viewed as a form of unconscious pattern-matching cognition, which becomes conscious under certain conditions and which is only loosely related to primary process. A clinical example is given of the analyst's intuition to illustrate the initial ostensibly theory-free nature of the raw intuition and the subsequent theory-bound explorations of the intuitive conclusion. Implications for teaching and learning psychoanalysis are noted

Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Consciousness · Epistemology · Intuition · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Unconscious mind · Free Will and Agency · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications

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