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Von Hartmann claims a long and distinguished line of ancestors for the notion of the unconscious.2 In the third volume of the Philosophy of the Unconscious he writes:
... it (the unconscious) was in the air, and prepared from all sides; furthermore, it was also a requirement of progress in the direction of self-consciousness and self-understanding of mankind, and because it corresponded to the deep-seated desire of the human mind it found such a quick and favorable acceptance with the public. No wonder that even the sparrows chirp about it on the roofs.3
Es war nichts Zufälliges, dass die Philosophie des Unbewussten gerade dieses Stichwort wählte.1
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Philosophie des Unbewussten (Leipzig: Hermann Haacke, 1890), roth ed., vol. III, p. 298.
The following works of von Hartmann are used as sources for this chapter: Geschichte der Metaphysik (Leipzig: Hermann Haacke, 1899), vol. II, Sachenregister: Unbewusste; Die Moderne Psychologie (Leipzig: Hermann Haacke, r9or), sect. III, Das Unbewusste; Philosophy of the Unconscious (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, Ltd., 195o), vol. I, pp. 16–42, 434-438.
Kritische Grundlegungen des Transcendentalen Realismus: System (Bad Sachsa: Hermann Haacke, 1907–09), vol. I.
Siimmtliche Werke,ed. by Rosenkranz and Schubert (Leipzig: Baumann, 1838–1842), in 12 vols. The present reference is made to vol. II, p. 793.
Über die Nothwendige Umbildung der Hegelschen Philosophie ihrem Grundprinzip heraus,in the Gesammelte Philosophische Abhandlungen zur Philosophie des Unbewussten (Berlin: Carl Dunker, 1872), Nr. 2, p. 25.
The True Intellectual System of the Universe,indexed by J. Harrison (London: R. Royston, 1845), 3 vols.
Renatus Arnou, Textus et Documenta, Series Philosophica, No. 4 ( Rome: Gregorian University, 1949 ), p. 20.
The History of Materialism,trans. by E. Ch. Thomas (New York: The Humanities Press, 1950), 3rd ed., 3 vols. “The aborigines of Australia refer everything which they cannot explain to the devil-devil, manifestly only a name, derived from the English devil, for a deity of whom they have not preserved any distinct conception.” (Schmidt, Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism). Devil-devil is to the Australian black probably omniscient, omnipotent, and so on, without therefore being a person; exactly like the “unconscious.” Footnote, vol. 2, ch. 4, p. 72.
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Darnoi, D.N.K. (1967). Historical Genesis of the Notion of the Unconscious. In: The Unconscious and Eduard von Hartmann. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9568-3_6
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