What Psychology Taught Us

Peter J. Leithart, January 24, 2006

Ernest Jones notes an essential contribution of modern psychology: "We are beginning to see man not as the smooth, self-acting agent he pretends to be, but as he really is, a creature only dimly conscious of the various influences that mould his thought and action, and blindly resisting with all the means at his command the forces that are making for a higher and fuller consciousness."