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How ironic that Freud, an exemplary product of the rationalist tradition, should discover the unconscious mind...Freud was confronted with a dilemma. On the one hand, he saw that our conscious lives are largely controlled by unconscious motivations. Yet for Freud this unconscious motivation was a primitive, instinctive, unreasoning force.

Much of the power of scientific experimentation lies in the ability to separate the observer from the observed, then limit the parameters under consideration. This is an incredibly powerful method but an essentially artificial one. It is never truly possible to eliminate extraneous factors...when the object is a human being, there is a tendency to view a human subject as an object...