From a Marxist perspective, I mean that he sought to explain the subconscious based on rational facts, similar to how Engels approached nature in "Dialectics of Nature," where he dismissed any existence of the "supernatural." However, we are discussing a period when science had not sufficiently evolved, and we cannot regard the capabilities of the subconscious or the power of the human brain as supernatural. The fact that Freud was unable to precisely explain why humans perceive through their eyes or senses does not mean that the human brain lacks these capabilities.
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Got it. Yes, empiricism is limited as it's epistemology only includes the physical realm. Then when it comes to our psychology, a pure empirical explanation can only go so far. There is a "ghost" in the machine. ;)
A proper epistemology will included the empirical realm and the phenomenological realm. This is especially important in the understanding of human relatedness.
Maybe in your machine there are no ghosts, but those things that your eye cannot see are perceived by your subconscious, because of fact that your eye are limited they cannot explain your subconscious
Yes, agreed. There is a ghost in machine! Yes, the five sense cannot capture the totality of the unconscious.