Freudian unconscious and cognitive neuroscience from unconscious fantasies to neural algorithms - Talvitie, Vesa (Karnac, 2009)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-150) and index
The unconscious and the mysteries of human life -- Historical context of the tension between the cognitive and the psychoanalytic unconscious -- The mind and the unconscious of the post-Freudian era -- On the competencies of the neural unconscious -- Repression and becoming conscious of the repressed reframed : the four-level model -- Psychotherapy, neuroscience, and the levels of explanation -- Epilogue : history of the future of psychoanalysis
The aim of "Freudian Unconscious and Cognitive Neuroscience" is to create a conception of the Freudian things around the unconscious that takes seriously both the clinical data gathered in the scope of psychoanalytic clinical practice during the past 110 years, and the empirical and theoretical achievements of cognitive science and evolutionary theory. Tensions between the psychoanalytic and other views give a hint that the task is anything but easy