The Envelopmental Unconscious: An Alternative Perspective to the Psychoanalytic Psychodynamic Formulation of the Unconscious

Warren Wilner

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The Envelopmental Unconscious: An Alternative Perspective to the Psychoanalytic Psychodynamic Formulation of the Unconscious

Warren Wilner

Published in American Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience (Volume 10, Issue 3)

Received: 28 July 2022 Accepted: 17 August 2022 Published: 29 August 2022

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The theory of the psychoanalytic psychodynamic based unconscious is discussed as an extension of the ways we understand consciousness; as an expression and interplay of largely objectifiable manifestations of cognitive and perceptual events and processes rooted in and oriented to reality in life. Offered here will be an alternative perspective on the unconscious, an envelopmental unconscious that is outside of the dimensions of psychic time and space. It is conceived of as an instantaneous dimension of psychic wholeness or oneness bounded only by contextually situational and imaginative, even visionary scope, extending outwards and inwards towards infinity. Whereas consciousness exists within a deterministic cause-and effect sensibility that we understand to be what reality is, the envelopment stands for all that is. The quantum and quantum physics in general is used to explore the above two perspectives. The quantum in particular has properties that correspond to both: its particle aspect can be realistically studied and worked with, and its wave, whose unconscious counterpart is seen as being able to extend to the limits of the psychic and physiical universe. Quantum mechanical concepts, such as entanglement and collapsing the wave function are utilized in exploring how conscious functioning can become part of the envelopmental unconscious, thus broadening the scope of Freud’s original psychoanalytic enterprise of making the unconscious conscious.

Published in	American Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience (Volume 10, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajpn.20221003.16
Page(s)	125-133
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright	Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Science Publishing Group

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Envelopmental Unconscious, Consciousness, Enganglements, Psychoanalysis

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Warren Wilner. The Envelopmental Unconscious: An Alternative Perspective to the Psychoanalytic Psychodynamic Formulation of the Unconscious. Am J Psychiatry Neurosci. 2022;10(3):125-133. doi: 10.11648/j.ajpn.20221003.16

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Warren Wilner

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Warren Wilner. The Envelopmental Unconscious: An Alternative Perspective to the Psychoanalytic Psychodynamic Formulation of the Unconscious. Am J Psychiatry Neurosci. 2022;10(3):125-133. doi: 10.11648/j.ajpn.20221003.16

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