#Pragmatism characterizes the #unconscious as embodied #habits and #skills we take for granted in focusing on #intentions or #conscious thought. Temporal performances create a background, context, or situation. In contrast, #Freudian thought renders the unconscious as a kind of space, like the basement, attic, or closets of a house. It suggests that #dreams and unconscious “thought” are a kind of broken or deformed version of conscious thought— junk stored in the basement or attic.

John #Rothfork: Review of #Dreyfus’s On the Internet