Unconscious Function

Famous quotes containing the words unconscious and/or function:

“An unconscious consciousness is no more a contradiction in terms than an unseen case of seeing.”
—Franz Clemens Brentano (1838–1917)

“Every boy was supposed to come into the world equipped with a father whose prime function was to be our father and show us how to be men. He can escape us, but we can never escape him. Present or absent, dead or alive, real or imagined, our father is the main man in our masculinity.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)