Dewey and the aesthetic unconscious: the vital depths of experience American philosophy (Lanham, Md.)/ Bethany Henning.

Abstract

"Bethany Henning argues that within the naturalistic strains of American philosophy, there is an implicit theory of the unconscious that finds its fullest expression within the work of John Dewey. Although the unconscious contributes to all experience, it plays a principal role in experiences that are emphatically aesthetic"--