THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CONSCIOUSNESS AND UNCONSCIOUS IN ŞT. ODOBLEJA’S CONCEPTION
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CONSCIOUSNESS AND UNCONSCIOUS IN ŞT. ODOBLEJA’S CONCEPTION

Summary/Abstract: The title of the present paper is unique and challenging for Ștefan Odobleja’s conception because a mechanistic, physicist, even reductionist approach on the human psyche, as we find in the Romanian thinker’s work, does not leave any room, apparently, for such a relationship where consciousness is an epiphenomenon, without any relevance for the psychic or neuropsychic machine, and the unconscious does not exist. There is no need for consciousness to realize an implementation structure, a feed-back; so, it is understandable that this process is automatic, unconscious, even if the unconscious is repudiated by the author. Odobleja wrote about consciousness and unconscious in his Consonantiste Psychology, but approached them separately. His conception on the two instances of the human soul is the prerogative of a physiological, neurophysiological vision, and that is why the above mentioned author, when speaking about consciousness, refers rather to the state of conscience, behavior being a result of consciousness. We can speak about levels of consciousness, but high level consciousness is a complicated process that can be studied not only from an informational, physiological point of view, but it also includes, undoubtedly, the psychological aspect, and, especially, the philosophical one.

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