Human Subconcious

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we read (Sphere & The Left Hand of Darkness)
and a movie we saw (Enemy Mine) trying to see what kind of ideas each story
shows about human nature.

In a first place, Sphere tries to emphasize the idea that most of us tend
to ignore our subconscious. We all had a fear, an idea or a dream that we
don't want to talk about. Sometimes it could be strange thoughts that we
had or something similar. We don't want to talk about them because they
shock us and they make us feel uncomfortable. Often we don't even realize
when these thoughts happen because it all happens in our subconscious. The
subconscious is the part of our mind that holds the forbidden, the unknown
of us, and all the part of us that we're afraid to show. Jung's theory of
the subconscious calls this the Shadow. In Sphere we have some examples of
people who are not able to control their Shadow and who suffer due to their
wild imagination. Our subconscious also holds a lot of preconceptions and
misconceptions about a ...

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by doing so we are just putting
away something that we should resolve. Now getting back to the book, when
Mr. Ai says "It seems likely that they were an experiment" and "their
ambisexuality has little or no adaptive value" (p.89) we can say that he
makes his opinion too fast. He barely knows them. He is just trying to find
reasons to justify their difference instead of trying to understand and
discover their way of acting and their values. This shows that humans tend
to misunderstand and to disregard different cultures and values than their
own. In this sense, we could say that these preconceived ideas bring up a
lot conflicts and problems. For example, we get religious wars like the ...

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