New approaches to understanding unconscious processes: Implicit and explicit memory systems
Titel:
New approaches to understanding unconscious processes: Implicit and explicit memory systems
Auteur:
Cortina, Mauricio Liotti, Giovanni
Verschenen in:
International forum of psychoanalysis
Paginering:
Jaargang 16 (2007) nr. 4 pagina's 204-212
Jaar:
2007
Inhoud:
Freud viewed the unconscious as being roughly equivalent to dynamically repressed wishes, needs, and motivations. Findings from developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, psychoanalysis, and neuroscience over the past 40 years have dramatically changed our views of unconscious processes and the human mind. It is now clear that Freud's dynamic unconscious is only a minor segment of information that is processed at subsymbolic, implicit, and automatic levels. Only a fraction of this information is further processed at explicit conscious levels. Moreover, the vast majority of the information that remains nonconscious is adaptive and has major consequences for development. We examine some clinical implications of these views.
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