The Ernest Becker Foundation

Title: Is It Useful to Speak of the Unconscious and the Repressed? What Kinds of Evidence Do We Have to Go On?
Author: Jeff Greenberg, Sheldon Solomon, et al
Location: LOV V: Violence and the Media
Date: 10/24/1999
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Lecture write-up:

A special final panel on Sunday morning dealt with the varied views of psychologists toward memory, repression, consciousness, and unconscious motivation extant today. The Becker-researching experimentalists Greenberg and Solomon welcomed two renowned colleagues from the UW, Elizabeth Loftus and Anthony Greenwald. Kirby Farrell, posed the questions: How do we edit the world? Is it useful to speak of the unconscious and the repressed? What kinds of evidence do we have to go on? The result was a helpful airing of views and approaches, with lots of common ground in evidence.

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