I also just read Valentine’s recent post Irrationality is Socially Strategic. That perspective treats the unconscious as sometimes scheming against you. While I think that’s not literally true, it’s a useful way to analyze it as long as you assume the schemes can be insightful but usually not include many causal steps. I still haven’t worked through what association mechanisms do and don’t accomplish in relation to conscious schemes.
I also just read Valentine’s recent post Irrationality is Socially Strategic. That perspective treats the unconscious as sometimes scheming against you. While I think that’s not literally true, it’s a useful way to analyze it as long as you assume the schemes can be insightful but usually not include many causal steps. I still haven’t worked through what association mechanisms do and don’t accomplish in relation to conscious schemes.