https://scholars-stage.org/freud-did-not-discover-the-unconscious/
The discovery that a dramatic amount of mental processing occurs outside our awareness is generally credited to Sigmund Freud (1856– 1939). However, this is a myth, crafted in large part by Freud himself. As noted by the historian and philosopher Marcel Gauchet, “When Freud declares, in substance, that prior to psychoanalysis the mind was systematically identified with consciousness, we have to declare this statement rigorously false.”
Freud Did Not Discover the Unconscious
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Freud neither discovered nor created this concept which was widely accepted in the 1800's. Just as Trump is not the father of IVF despite his claims
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His early mentor Carl Jung had already developed some theories of the unconscious. Freud developed his own version, which is more well known
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