Consciousness Redux: Neuroscience Meets Psychoanalysis; April/May/June 2009; Scientific American Mind; by Heather A. Berlin and Christof Koch; 4 Page(s)

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. Ludwig Wittgenstein

How much of what you consciously experience in your daily life is influenced by hidden unconscious processes? This mystery is one of the many that continue to confound our understanding of ourselves. We do not know how conscious impulses, desires or motives become unconscious or, conversely, how unconscious impulses, desires or motives suddenly become conscious.