their language, throughout Norway every area has its own national costume that is worn on their National Day, May 17, or whenever a slightly formal or even a black tie occasion arises.
âCertainly we need to communicate in one language in order understand science, business and international politics, but we need to keep some special identities as part of our personal and cultural heritage. When we decapitate our past we may hear the primal scream of lonelinessâthe silence and emptiness of not having a past.
THE HYPOTHETICAL STRUCTURE OF OUR MINDS
âNow letâs put this together graphically. As we have said, throughout most of history people have thought that their minds included only those things which they could think about--the thoughts of which they were conscious. As we have also said, Sigmund Freud popularized the idea that we have a large part of our mind which is below the conscious level. He believed that this was far larger than the conscious mind and so it controlled more of our actions. This he called the unconscious or subconscious mind. Most scientists accept both of these levels of mind.â
ââChuck, in the States recently a woman purposely drowned her two children by putting them in a car and rolling it into a lake. Her defense was that she had been repeatedly raped as a child by her stepfather. The effects of these rapes was held by the lawyers to be the âunconsciousâ reason that she killed her sons whom she supposedly loved. There are certainly huge numbers of legal cases that suggest that the unconscious mind is a powerful motivator of behavior.â
ââRight Lee. Now letâs go to a deeper level of mind. There are undoubtedly hereditary elements that influence our minds. Instincts, such as for violence, or maybe towards esthetics, like art or music abilities may exist here. Orr maybe physical beauty or unattractiveness might influence a person to act in a more positive
âCertainly we need to communicate in one language in order understand science, business and international politics, but we need to keep some special identities as part of our personal and cultural heritage. When we decapitate our past we may hear the primal scream of lonelinessâthe silence and emptiness of not having a past.
THE HYPOTHETICAL STRUCTURE OF OUR MINDS
âNow letâs put this together graphically. As we have said, throughout most of history people have thought that their minds included only those things which they could think about--the thoughts of which they were conscious. As we have also said, Sigmund Freud popularized the idea that we have a large part of our mind which is below the conscious level. He believed that this was far larger than the conscious mind and so it controlled more of our actions. This he called the unconscious or subconscious mind. Most scientists accept both of these levels of mind.â
ââChuck, in the States recently a woman purposely drowned her two children by putting them in a car and rolling it into a lake. Her defense was that she had been repeatedly raped as a child by her stepfather. The effects of these rapes was held by the lawyers to be the âunconsciousâ reason that she killed her sons whom she supposedly loved. There are certainly huge numbers of legal cases that suggest that the unconscious mind is a powerful motivator of behavior.â
ââRight Lee. Now letâs go to a deeper level of mind. There are undoubtedly hereditary elements that influence our minds. Instincts, such as for violence, or maybe towards esthetics, like art or music abilities may exist here. Orr maybe physical beauty or unattractiveness might influence a person to act in a more positive