What You Know You Don't Know
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781590513651
Description: "The unconscious sprang to the attention of the West a hundred years ago, and we are still struggling to absorb its full impact. It was one thing to understand the concept, to see it and believe it, but another to live with it, to take in fully its challenge to our deepest cultural assumptions. Today, as we expand our understanding of its reach, we are still coming to grips with what it means. This "new unconscious" is driven by the identities we assume, the groups we belong to, the ideas we inherit, the languages we use - all the elements that provide meaning and structure to our world." "What You Don't Know You Know is about this emergent understanding, and how it forces us to rethink our relationships with each other as well as our beliefs about what it means to be a person, to have a self. It is for all of those who want a better understanding of the complexity of human motivation: For the executive faced with employees resisting change, the elected official trying to forge agreements among competing interests, the consultant brought in to restructure an ailing corporation, or the many individuals struggling to understand their relationships and why they do the things they do. All too often, our actions do not conform to our explicit intentions or to common sense. We are more constricted than we think, but sometimes we are also smarter."--Jacket.